INDICE: Introduction; Part I. When Law Fails; Section 1. The Limits of Legal Protection; 1. 'Hockey Dad's Death Probed as Homicide,' Ed Hayward and David Talbot; 2. 'Dad Sentenced to 6 to 10 Years for Rink Death,' Geraldine Baum; 3. DeShaney v. Winnebago; 4. 'A Crime of Self Defense,' George Fletcher; 5. 'In the Nation's Capital, It's the Season of Insecurity,' Jon Schmitz, Pittsburgh Post Gazette; 6. 'The Spirit of the Laws,' Harold Koh; Section 2. What Law Is For; 7. 'Leviathan,' Thomas Hobbes; 8. 'Law as a Weapon in Social Conflict,' Austin Turk; 9. 'On Liberty,' John Stuart Mill; 10. Lawrence v. Texas; 11. 'Law as Rhetoric, Rhetoric as Law,' James Boyd White; Part II. The Search for Law; Section 3. Three Dilemmas of Social Organization; Accessibility; 12. 'Before the Law,' Franz Kafka; Severity and Leniency; 13. 'Property, Authority and the Criminal Law,' Douglas Hay; Bureaucratic Control and Rule Following; 14. 'Violence and the Word,' Robert Cover; Part III. Access to Justice: The Demand for Law and Law's Demands; Section 4. Lining Up at the Door of Law; 15. 'The Emergence and Transformation of Disputes,' William Felstiner, Richard Abel, and Austin Sarat; 16. 'Liability: The Legal Revolution and Its Consequences,' Peter Huber; 17. 'The Crisis Is Injuries, Not Liability,' Richard Abel; 18. 'How JuryDecided How Much the Coffee Spill Was Worth,' Andrea Gerling; 19. 'Jurors' Judgments of Business Liability in Tort Cases,' Valerie Hans and William Loftquist; Section 5. Lawyers in Civil Cases; 20. 'Lawyers and Consumer Protection Laws,' Stewart Macaulay; 21. 'The Justice Broker: Lawyers & Ordinary Litigation,' Hebert Kritzer; 22. 'The Impact of Legal Counsel on Outcomes for Poor Tenants in New York City's Housing Court,' Carroll Seron et al.; Section 6. Whose Law Is It Anyway?; 23. Rusk v. Maryland; 24. 'Rape,' Susan Estrich; 25. 'RiskingRelationships,' Phoebe Morgan; 26. 'Rights Talk and the Experience of Law,' Sally Engle Merry; Section 7. Who Speaks and Who Is Heard: The Continuing Significance of Class; 27. Goldberg v. Kelley; 28. 'Subordination, Rhetorical Survival Skills, and Sunday Shoes,' Lucie White; 29. 'Dependency by Law,' Frank Munger; Part IV. Severity and Leniency: Administering a System of Discretionary Justice; Section 8. From Severity to Leniency: Plea Bargaining and the Possibility of Justice; 30. 'American Courts: Process and Policy,' Lawrence Baum; 31. Scott v. United States; 32. 'Torture and Plea Bargaining,' John Langbein; Section 9. Lawyers in Criminal Cases; 33. 'Convictability and Discordant Locales,'Lisa Frohmann; 34. 'Understanding Lawyers' Ethics,' Monroe Freedman and Abbe Smith; 35. 'Fine Line in Indictment: Defense vs. Complicity,' Laura Mansnerus;36. 'Defending White Collar Crime,' Kenneth Mann; 37. 'The Practice of Law asa Confidence Game,' Abraham S. Blumberg; Section 10.
- ISBN: 978-0-19-533034-2
- Editorial: Oxford University
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 596
- Fecha Publicación: 29/07/2010
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