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The secrets of law / Austin Sarat, Lawrence Douglas, Martha Merrill Umphrey

Published
Stanford, California : Stanford Law Books, [2012]
Copyright Date
©2012
Physical Description
1 online resource (269 pages).
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Sarat, Austin, Douglas, Lawrence, and Umphrey, Martha Merrill
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Contents
Transparency and opacity in law : an introduction / Martha Merrill Umphrey, Austin Sarat, and Lawrence Douglas -- Open secrets and dirty hands / Alasdair Roberts -- Secret trials and public justice / Lindsay Farmer -- Spousal secrets : same-sex couples and the functional approach to spousal evidentiary privileges / Edward Stein -- Wilkie Collins' law books : law, literature, and factual precedent / Bernadette Meyler -- Historiographic secrets of the labour contract : the law and literature of Lewis Jones' "Cwmardy" and "We live" / Melanie L. Williams -- Duly noted or off the record? : Sovereignty and the secrecy of the law in cinema / Richard Burt.
Summary
This book explores the ways law both traffics in and regulates secrecy. Taking a close look at the opacity built into legal and governance processes, it explores the ways law produces zones of secrecy, the relation between secrecy and justice, and how we understand the inscrutability of law's processes.
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ISBN
9780804783903 (ebook)
080478390X (ebook)
9780804782593 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0804782598 (cloth ; alk. paper)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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