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The limits of law

Essays examine the different meanings of the limits of law: descriptive, normative, and constitutive. They take as their focus law's relationship to "transitional moments and spectral spaces"--Acts of terror, states of emergency, gestures of surrender, offers of amnesty, payment of reparation, and invocations of retroactivity. They show how law is generated and changed through contact with conditions at the edges of legal theory
Print Book, English, 2005
Stanford University Press, Stanford, Calif., 2005
Aufsatzsammlung
xi, 321 pages ; 24 cm
9780804752350, 0804752354
58604862
At the limits of law / Lawrence Douglas, Austin Sarat, and Martha Merrill Umphrey
Terrorism and the limits of law : a view from transitional justice / Laura Dickinson
Legalism and its discontents : the case of reparations for Black Americans / John Torpey
The dilemma of legality and the moral limits of law / David Dyzenhaus
The conditions of surrender : reconstituting the limits at conflict's end / Robin Wagner-Pacifici
Bound by law? : alien rights, administrative discretion, and the politics of technicality : lessons from Louis Post and the first red scare / Bonnie Honig
At the mercy of / Adam Sitze