Residues of Justice - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Residues of Justice write by Wai Chee Dimock. This book was released on 2023-04-28. Residues of Justice available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1996.
Residues of Justice
Residues of Justice - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Residues of Justice write by Wai Chee Dimock. This book was released on 2021-01-08. Residues of Justice available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1996.
The Fugitive's Properties
The Fugitive's Properties - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Fugitive's Properties write by Stephen M. Best. This book was released on 2010-05-15. The Fugitive's Properties available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this study of literature and law before and since the Civil War, Stephen M. Best shows how American conceptions of slavery, property, and the idea of the fugitive were profoundly interconnected. The Fugitive's Properties uncovers a poetics of intangible, personified property emerging out of antebellum laws, circulating through key nineteenth-century works of literature, and informing cultural forms such as blackface minstrelsy and early race films. Best also argues that legal principles dealing with fugitives and indebted persons provided a sophisticated precursor to intellectual property law as it dealt with rights in appearance, expression, and other abstract aspects of personhood. In this conception of property as fleeting, indeed fugitive, American law preserved for much of the rest of the century slavery's most pressing legal imperative: the production of personhood as a market commodity. By revealing the paradoxes of this relationship between fugitive slave law and intellectual property law, Best helps us to understand how race achieved much of its force in the American cultural imagination. A work of ambitious scope and compelling cross-connections, The Fugitive's Properties sets new agendas for scholars of American literature and legal culture.
A Certain Justice
A Certain Justice - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Certain Justice write by Haiyan Lee. This book was released on 2023-06-05. A Certain Justice available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A much-needed account of the hierarchy of justice that defines China’s unique political-legal culture. To many outsiders, China has an image as a realm of Oriental despotism where law is at best window dressing and at worst an instrument of coercion and tyranny. In this highly original contribution to the interdisciplinary field of law and humanities, Haiyan Lee contends that this image arises from a skewed understanding of China’s political-legal culture, particularly the failure to distinguish what she calls high justice and low justice. In the Chinese legal imagination, Lee shows, justice is a vertical concept, with low justice between individuals firmly subordinated to the high justice of the state. China’s political-legal culture is marked by a mistrust of law’s powers, and as a result, it privileges substantive over procedural justice. Calling on a wide array of narratives—stories of crime and punishment, subterfuge and exposé, guilt and redemption—A Certain Justice helps us recognize the fight for justice outside the familiar arenas of liberal democracy and the rule of law.
Law and the Humanities
Law and the Humanities - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Law and the Humanities write by Austin Sarat. This book was released on 2009-10-30. Law and the Humanities available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Law and the Humanities: An Introduction brings together a distinguished group of scholars from law schools and an array of the disciplines in the humanities. Contributors come from the United States and abroad in recognition of the global reach of this field. This book is, at one and the same time, a stock taking both of different national traditions and of the various modes and subjects of law and humanities scholarship. It is also an effort to chart future directions for the field. By reviewing and analyzing existing scholarship and providing thematic content and distinctive arguments, it offers to its readers both a resource and a provocation. Thus, Law and the Humanities marks the maturation of this 'law and' enterprise and will spur its further development.
