Research Catalog

Title

Looking back at law's century / edited by Austin Sarat, Bryant Garth, Robert A. Kagan.

Publication

Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2002.

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Additional Authors

• Sarat, Austin
• Garth, Bryant G.
• Kagan, Robert A.
• Minow, Martha, 1954-
• Kennedy, David M., 1958-

Description

vi, 446 p. : ill.; 25 cm.

Subject

• 1900-1999
• Law > United States > History > 20th century > Congresses

Genre/Form

• Conference papers and proceedings
• History
• Conference papers and proceedings.
• History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Facilitating and domesticating change : democracy, capitalism, and law's double role in the twentieth century / Robert A. Kagan, Bryant Garth, and Austin Sarat -- The idea of political freedom / Owen Fiss -- Instituting universal human rights law : the invention of tradition in the twentieth century / Martha Minow -- Racial justice : moral or political? / Kendall Thomas -- Visions of self-control : fashioning a liberal approach to crime and punishment in the twentieth century / Jonathan Simon -- Twentieth-century legal metaphors for self and society / Guyora Binder -- Citizenship, agency, and the dream of time / Carol J. Greenhouse -- The rhetoric of community : civil society and the legal order / Marianne Constable -- Law and the corporation / Morton Keller -- The legal origins of the modern American state / William J. Novak -- The legal profession / Robert W. Gordon -- Professing law : elite law school professors in the twentieth century / Laura Kalman -- The twentieth-century discipline of international law in the United States / David Kennedy.

ISBN

0801439574 (cloth : acid-free paper)

LCCN

2002005493 ^

OCLC

• 49552267
• SCSB-10484235

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library