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Studies in Law, Politics and Society

2002 ᛫


This volume presents scholarly work which spans the social sciences, humanities, and law and includes the examination of new perspectives on legal relationships and events and punishment as a literary and philosophical issue.

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Summary


This volume of "Studies in Law, Politics, and Society" presents a diverse array of articles by an interdisciplinary and international group of scholars. Their work spans the social sciences, humanities, and law and examines new perspectives on legal relationships and events, punishment as a literary and philosophical issue, and custom and experience in law and society. The articles published here illuminate some of the exciting work being done in interdisciplinary legal scholarship.

Table of contents

  • New Perspectives on Legal Relations and Events: "I am quite a stranger to the ways of this place" - the strange character of the law, R. Reichman; Theatres of pardoning - tragicomedy and the gunpowder plot, B. Meyler. Punishment as a Literary and Philosophical Issue: Western penology and the Russian "living soul" - Dostoevsky and the contemporary discourse of moral reflection, A. Kaladiouk; Dignity, citizenship and capital punishment - the right to life reformulated, C. Brettschneider. Law in Society: Custom and Experience - Law's inertia, custom in logic and experience, C. Kemp; Civil litigation from litigants' perspectives - what we know and what we don't know about the litigation experience of individual litigants, T. Relis.