Austin Sarat
Forfatter af When the State Kills: Capital Punishment and the American Condition
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Austin Sarat is William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence & Political Science, Amherst College. Thomas R. Kearns is William H. Hastie Professor of Philosophy & Professor of Law, Jurisprudence, & Social Thought, Amherst College. (Bowker Author Biography)
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Værker af Austin Sarat
From Lynch Mobs to the Killing State: Race and the Death Penalty in America (2006) — Redaktør — 19 eksemplarer
Cause Lawyering: Political Commitments and Professional Responsibilities (Oxford Socio-Legal Studies) (1998) 15 eksemplarer
Law in Everyday Life (The Amherst Series in Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought) (1993) 12 eksemplarer
Studies in Law, Politics and Society (Studies in Law, Politics, and Society) (Studies in Law, Politics, and Society) (2010) 11 eksemplarer
Law in the Domains of Culture (The Amherst Series in Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought) (1998) 9 eksemplarer
The Rhetoric of Law (The Amherst Series in Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought) (1994) 8 eksemplarer
Law on the Screen (The Amherst Series in Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought) (2005) 7 eksemplarer
Law and the Stranger (The Amherst Series in Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought) (2010) 6 eksemplarer
Punishment in Popular Culture (The Charles Hamilton Houston Institute Series on Race and Justice) (2015) — Redaktør — 6 eksemplarer
Merciful Judgments and Contemporary Society: Legal Problems, Legal Possibilities (2011) 6 eksemplarer
Rhetorical Processes and Legal Judgments: How Language and Arguments Shape Struggles for Rights and Power (2016) 5 eksemplarer
History, Memory, and the Law (The Amherst Series in Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought) (1999) 5 eksemplarer
Legal Rights: Historical and Philosophical Perspectives (The Amherst Series in Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought) (1997) 4 eksemplarer
The Place of Law (The Amherst Series in Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought) (2003) 4 eksemplarer
Identities, Politics, and Rights (The Amherst Series in Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought) (1995) 4 eksemplarer
Cultural Pluralism, Identity Politics, and the Law (The Amherst Series in Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought) (1999) 4 eksemplarer
Human Rights: Concepts, Contests, Contingencies (The Amherst Series in Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought) (2002) 4 eksemplarer
Teaching Law and Literature (Modern Language Association of America Options for Teaching) (2011) 4 eksemplarer
Legal Responses to Religious Practices in the United States: Accomodation and its Limits (2012) 4 eksemplarer
Racial reconciliation and the healing of a nation : beyond law and rights (2017) — Redaktør — 4 eksemplarer
Special Issue: Social Movements/Legal Possibilities (Studies in Law, Politics, and Society) (2011) 4 eksemplarer
The Road to Abolition?: The Future of Capital Punishment in the United States (Charles Hamilton Houston Institute… (2009) — Redaktør — 4 eksemplarer
Special Issue: Human Rights: New Possibilities/New Problems (Studies in Law, Politics, and Society) (2011) 4 eksemplarer
Law and the Sacred (The Amherst Series in Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought) (2006) 3 eksemplarer
Special Issue: The Legacy of Stuart Scheingold (Studies in Law, Politics, and Society) (2012) 3 eksemplarer
Dissenting Voices in American Society: The Role of Judges, Lawyers, and Citizens (2012) 3 eksemplarer
The Secrets of Law (The Amherst Series in Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought) (2012) 2 eksemplarer
Studies in Law, Politics and Society, Volume 42 (Studies in Law, Politics & Society) (2006) 2 eksemplarer
Special issue : problematizing prostitution : critical research and scholarship (2016) 2 eksemplarer
Special Issue Constitutional Polilitics in a Conservative Era (Studies in Law, Politics, and Society) (2008) 2 eksemplarer
When governments break the law : the rule of law and the prosecution of the Bush administration 2 eksemplarer
Special Issue: Vol. 52: Law Firms, Legal Culture, and Legal Practice (Studies in Law, Politics & Society) (2010) 2 eksemplarer
Crossing Boundaries: Traditions and Transformations in Law and Society Research (1998) 2 eksemplarer
Studies in Law, Politics and Society, Volume 43: SPECIAL ISSUE: LAW AND LITERATURE RECONSIDERED (Studies in Law,… (2008) 2 eksemplarer
Special Issue: The Discourse of Judging (Studies in Law, Politics, and Society) (2012) 2 eksemplarer
Reimagining To Kill a Mockingbird : family, community, and the possibility of equal justice under law (2013) 2 eksemplarer
Identities, Politics and Rights (Amherst Series in Law, Jurisprudence & Social Thought) (1997) 2 eksemplarer
Special Issue: Law and the Imagining of Difference (Studies in Law, Politics, and Society) (Studies in Law Politics and… (2018) 1 eksemplar
Law and Illiberalism (The Amherst Series in Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought) (2022) 1 eksemplar
The Death Penalty on the Ballot: American Democracy and the Fate of Capital Punishment (2019) 1 eksemplar
Studies in law, politics, and society the death penalty dying? / Volume 42, Special issue 1 eksemplar
Law and Catastrophe (The Amherst Series in Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought) (2007) 1 eksemplar
The Cultural Lives of Capital Punishment: Comparative Perspectives (The Cultural Lives of Law) (2005) 1 eksemplar
Law and Society: The Next Generation (Studies in Law, Politics & Society) (Studies in Law, Politics, and Society) (2010) 1 eksemplar
Human Rights: Concepts, Contests, Contingencies (The Amherst Series in Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought) (2001) 1 eksemplar
Road to Abolition? 1 eksemplar
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Gruesome Spectacles: Botched Executions and… af Austin Sarat
What I thought would be a quick read of botched executions turned out to be a serious study of capital punishment from the perspective of botched executions. The author traces the history of capital punishment from the days when it demonstrated that one's life belonged to the king, who could take it away in the most gruesome manner imaginable or just as easily grant a pardon, to the present day when executions have become bureaucratic excercises performed away from the public's view. The author also shows how botched executions and the drive to find an efficient and painless way to kill have driven the move from hanging to electrocution to gassing to the present day lethal infection. In the author's statistics of all botched executions since 1900, lethal infection actually has a higher rate of executions gone wrong (7.12% compared to 3.12% for hanging and 1.92% for the electric chair).… (mere)
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