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Looking for law in all the wrong places : justice beyond and between / Marianne Constable, Leti Volpp, and Bryan Wagner, editors ; Townsend Center for the Humanities, University of California, Berkeley

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New York : Fordham University Press, [2019]
Edition
First edition.
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1 online resource
Additional Creators
Constable, Marianne, Volpp, Leti, Wagner, Bryan, and Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities
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Contents
Introduction / Marianne Constable, Leti Volpp, and Bryan Wagner -- The wild life of law : domesticating nature in the Bering Sea, c. 1893 / Rebecca M. McLennan -- Before emptiness : on the destructiveness and impotence of law / Samera Esmeir -- Spun dry : mobility and jurisdiction in northern Australia / Daniel Fisher -- Signs of authority in Indian country / Beth H. Piatote -- Signs of law / Leti Volpp -- After Obergefell : on marriage and belonging in Carson McCullers's Member of the wedding / Sarah Song -- Secularism, family law, and gender inequality / Saba Mahmood -- When persons become firms and firms become persons : neoliberal jurisprudence and evangelical Christianity in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc. / Wendy Brown -- Is there Jewish law? : the case of Josephus / Daniel Boyarin -- The protestant power of attorney of 1531 : a legalistic history of the early reformation in Germany / Sara Ludin -- Looking for law in the confessions of Nat Turner / Christopher Tomlins -- A vigil at the end of the world / Kathryn Abrams -- Invention and process in Bilski / Marianne Constable -- "Erudite curiosity" : the trial of Jean-Jacques Pauvert, publisher of the complete works of the Marquis de Sade, Paris 1958 / Ramona Naddaff -- The trial of Romeo Rosebud / Bryan Wagner.
Summary
For most, the right place to look for law is in constitutions, statutes, and judicial opinions. This interdisciplinary collection looks for law in the ""wrong places""--Sites and spaces in which no formal law appears--geographic regions beyond the law's reach, everyday practices ungoverned by law, works of art that have escaped law's constraints. Beyond showing law to be determined by or determinative of cultural phenomena, the contributors show how law is itself interwoven with language, text, image, and culture
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ISBN
9780823283736 (electronic book)
0823283739 (electronic book)
9780823283712 (hardcover alkaline paper)
9780823283705 (paperback alkaline paper)
Note
"The volume itself grew out of the Strategic Working Group on Law and the Humanities, which was funded by a Mellon Grant under the auspices of the Townsend Center for the Humanities, for which we are grateful."
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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