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Law's Madness.
Title:
Law's Madness.
Author:
Sarat, Austin.
ISBN:
9780472022090
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (185 pages)
Series:
The Amherst Series In Law, Jurisprudence, And Social Thought
Contents:
Contents -- Madness and Law: An Introduction -- Policing Stories -- Narrating Nymphomania between Psychiatry and the Law -- "A Situation So Unique That It Will Probably Never Reapeat Itself": Madness, Youth, and Homicide in Twentieth-Century Criminal Jurisprudence -- The Claims of the Dead: History, Haunted Property, and the Law -- Rethinking Legal Ideals after Deconstruction -- Contributors -- Index.
Abstract:
A provocative collection of essays that reveals how the law takes its definition from what it excludes.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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