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Political Science

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Before Before

A Story of Discovery and Loss in Sierra Leone

By Betsy Small
Subjects: Law, Law and Society, African Studies, Political Science, Human Rights
Series: Law, Meaning, and Violence

Reflecting on how building connections with others is necessary for humanity’s survival

Making Endless War

The Vietnam and Arab-Israeli Conflicts in the History of International Law

Edited by Brian Cuddy & Victor Kattan
Subjects: Law, International Law, Political Science, Conflict Resolution & Peace Studies, International Relations
Series: Law, Meaning, and Violence

How two conflicts have shaped the relationship between law and war since 1945

The Limits to Union

Same-Sex Marriage and the Politics of Civil Rights

By Jonathan Goldberg-Hiller
Subjects: Law, Cultural Studies, Gender Studies, Political Science
Series: Law, Meaning, and Violence

Offers a case study of the same-sex marriage debate in Hawaii to discuss wider questions of political import

Strangers to the Law

Gay People on Trial

By Lisa Melinda Keen & Suzanne Beth Goldberg
Subjects: Law, Sexuality Studies, Political Science, American Politics
Series: Law, Meaning, and Violence

Describes the legal challenge to the Colorado anti-gay civil rights initiative

The Truth Machines

Policing, Violence, and Scientific Interrogations in India

By Jinee Lokaneeta
Subjects: Political Science, Criminology, Law, Law and Society, Asian Studies, South/Southeast Asia
Series: Law, Meaning, and Violence

Interrogation as a site of state sanctioned torture and violence

Keeping Hold of Justice

Encounters between Law and Colonialism

By Jennifer Balint, Julie Evans, Nesam McMillan, and Mark David McMillan
Subjects: Political Science, Political History, Law, Law and Society, Legal History
Series: Law, Meaning, and Violence

Colonialism is a structural injustice embedded in law; what possibilities for justice remain?

The Jurisprudence of Emergency

Colonialism and the Rule of Law

With a new Foreword by Antony Anghie and Preface by Austin Sarat

By Nasser Hussain
Subjects: Law, History, Asian and Southeast Asian History, Political Science
Series: Law, Meaning, and Violence

The tension between the ideology of liberty and government by law in British India shaped the development of colonial rule, and thus, Western legality

Punishment and Political Order

By Keally McBride
Subjects: Political Science, Political Theory, Law, Law and Society
Series: Law, Meaning, and Violence

An incisive, eminently readable study of the evolving relationship between punishment and social order

Archiving Sovereignty

Law, History, Violence

By Stewart Motha
Subjects: Political Science, Political Theory, Law, Law and Society, African Studies, Asian Studies
Series: Law, Meaning, and Violence

An account of how courts repeat historical fictions that maintain sources of sovereign power.

Curating Community

Museums, Constitutionalism, and the Taming of the Political

By Stacy Douglas
Subjects: Political Science, Political Theory, Law, Supreme Court and Constitutional Law, Law and Society, International Relations
Series: Law, Meaning, and Violence

Reconsiders complex questions about how we imagine ourselves and our political communities

 

The First Global Prosecutor

Promise and Constraints

By Martha Minow, C. Cora True-Frost, and Alex Whiting
Subjects: Law, International Law, Political Science, International Relations, Criminology
Series: Law, Meaning, and Violence

Legal scholars and practitioners examine the role of the ICC’s first prosecutor

Hybrid Justice

The Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia

By John D. Ciorciari & Anne Heindel
Subjects: Political Science, Human Rights, Law
Series: Law, Meaning, and Violence

A definitive scholarly treatment of the ECCC from legal and political perspectives

The Justice of Mercy

By Linda Ross Meyer
Subjects: Philosophy, Law, Criminology, Political Science, Political Theory, Religion, International Law
Series: Law, Meaning, and Violence

Is there room for mercy in a system of justice?

The Politics of Community Policing

Rearranging the Power to Punish

By William (Bill) Thomas Lyons
Subjects: Law, Sociology, Political Science, American Politics
Series: Law, Meaning, and Violence

Community policing, the author argues, does not necessarily empower the community but often increases the power of the police

Communities and Law

Politics and Cultures of Legal Identities

By Gad Barzilai
Subjects: Political Science, International Relations, Law, Comparative Politics, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Sociology
Series: Law, Meaning, and Violence

Offers an alternative approach to liberalism and to communitarianism, with an empirical focus on Israel

Lives of Lawyers Revisited

Transformation and Resilience in the Organizations of Practice

By Michael J. Kelly
Subjects: Law, Law and Society, Sociology, Political Science
Series: Law, Meaning, and Violence

A profound ethnographic analysis of how lawyers understand and respond to sweeping changes in the legal profession

Transformative Justice

Israeli Identity on Trial

By Leora Yedida Bilsky
Subjects: Law, Political Science, Cultural Studies, History
Series: Law, Meaning, and Violence

Can Israel be both Jewish and democratic?

From Noose to Needle

Capital Punishment and the Late Liberal State

By Timothy Vance Kaufman-Osborn
Subjects: Law, Political Science, History
Series: Law, Meaning, and Violence

Discusses the dilemmas of the relationship between the liberal state and capital punishment

Suing the Gun Industry

A Battle at the Crossroads of Gun Control and Mass Torts

Edited by Timothy Lytton
Subjects: Law, Political Science, Public Policy, Health & Medicine, Health Policy & Management
Series: Law, Meaning, and Violence

The first comprehensive analysis of recent lawsuits against gun makers

Punishing Schools

Fear and Citizenship in American Public Education

By William (Bill) Thomas Lyons & Julie Drew
Subjects: Education, Political Science, Sociology, American Studies
Series: Law, Meaning, and Violence

How a zero-tolerance political culture impacts America's students

Dying Inside

The HIV/AIDS Ward at Limestone Prison

By Benjamin Dov Fleury-Steiner
Subjects: Political Science, Public Policy, Health & Medicine, Health Policy & Management, Human Rights, Sociology
Series: Law, Meaning, and Violence

A graphic exposé of the inhumane treatment of HIV-positive inmates in U.S. prisons

Sacred Violence

Torture, Terror, and Sovereignty

By Paul W. Kahn
Subjects: Law, International Law, Law and Society, Supreme Court and Constitutional Law, Middle and Near Eastern Studies, Philosophy, Political Science, Human Rights, International Relations
Series: Law, Meaning, and Violence

Is torture the inevitable reaction to terrorism?

Jurors' Stories of Death

How America's Death Penalty Invests in Inequality

By Benjamin Dov Fleury-Steiner
Subjects: Law, Political Science, Sociology
Series: Law, Meaning, and Violence

An extraordinary study of the people directly involved in death-penalty decisions

The Jurisprudence of Emergency

Colonialism and the Rule of Law

By Nasser Hussain
Subjects: Law, History, Asian and Southeast Asian History, Political Science
Series: Law, Meaning, and Violence

The tension between the ideology of liberty and government by law in British India shaped the development of colonial rule, and thus, Western legality

Pain, Death, and the Law

Edited by Austin Sarat
Subjects: Law, Political Science, Anthropology, Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory
Series: Law, Meaning, and Violence

How the law constructs pain and death as jurisprudential facts

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