Bøger af Martha Merrill Umphrey

Bringing together the work of scholars in anthropology, law, literary studies, philosophy, and political theory, this book includes essays that show how state and private bureaucracies play crucial roles in fashioning forms of responsibility, which they then enjoin on populations.

This volume gathers a collection of the most seminal essays written by leading experts in the fields of law, and cultural studies, which address the cultural dimension of trials

The essays assembled in How Law Knows provide a sample of the diversity, responsiveness, and influence that law's knowledge practices have on legal outcomes and the world beyond law.