Studies in Law, Politics, and Society

by Austin Sarat

Overview

Studies in Law, Politics, and Society provides a vehicle for the publication of scholarly articles within the broad parameters of interdisciplinary legal scholarship. In this latest edition of this highly successful research series, chapters examine a diverse range of legal issues and their impact on and intersections with society. This volume features a special section with papers dedicated to law and disability. The chapters examine issues of HIV, obesity, disability rights, assisted suicide and prenatal testing. Other papers included in this important volume address the right to education for migrant children in the United States and the rights to citizenship of British children. This volume brings together leading scholars and will be vital reading for all those researching in this subject area.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780857246158
Publisher:	Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Publication date:	12/13/2010
Series:	Studies in Law, Politics, and Society Series , #53
Pages:	172
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Austin Sarat is William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science at Amherst College, USA. He is also a Five College Fortieth Anniversary Professor. He has written, co-written, or edited more than fifty books in the fields of law and political science.

Table of Contents

1. To What Extent is Pyler v. Doe an Effective Protection for the Right to Education for Irregular Migrant Children in Contemporary US?; Robbie Eyles

2. A Brave New British Citizenry? Reconceptualising the Acquisition of British Citizenship by Children; Devyani Prabhat and Jessica Hambly
3. Symposium on Law and Disability HIV/AIDS, Obesity and stigma: a new era for non-discrimination law?; Peter McTigue, Stuart W. Flint, and Jeremé Snook
4. Putting the “Right to Die” in its Place: Disability Rights and Physician-Assisted Suicide in the Context of US End-of-Life Care; Harold Braswell
5. Prenatal Testing and Disability Rights: Challenging “Genetic Genocide”; Katharina Heyer

Editorial Reviews

Academics from the fields of law, political science, sociology, and English contribute nine articles exploring the law's interaction with civil society. The articles have been organized by Sarat (law and political science, Amherst College) and Ewick (sociology, Clark U.) into four sections related to: the status of the legal family, punishment, national sovereignty, and theory. Specific topics treated include the politics of same-sex marriage, the legal rhetorical strategies of the notion of "civil" versus "savage," the detection of remorse in relation to sentencing, and the strategies of democratizing forces in Mexico in the past decade. Lacks a subject index. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Booknews

Law scholars explore a number of issues in interactions between the law and the rest of society. They cover commercial leases and family reality in Charles Reznikoff's Family Chronicles; condo crimes and legal prospects for confronting the unusual suspects; the nursery years of "judicial activism:" from a historian's shorthand to media catchphrase; teenage pregnancy, parenting, and abortion: legal limits on adolescents' reproductive rights; "letting kids be kids:" youth voice and activism to reform foster care and promote "normalcy," teen health care decisions: how maturity and social policy affect four hard cases; and transgender children, teaching early acceptance, and the heckler's veto.

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This year's volume contains four papers from the symposium Health and the Law: Protection, Promotion, Paternalism. They cover reproductive justice, vaccine refusal, and the uneven landscape of choice; rights of the un-vaccinated child; policing pleasure: the socio-legal framework for understanding the social control of desire; and data refusal and the problem of group identity. Two general papers discuss the emergence of marriage equality and the sad demise of civil unions, and "community voices" and "speaking out:" rights talk and the LGBTQ community in the 1980s.

Annotation ©2017

In this book, editor Austin Sarat presents readers with a collection of academic essays and scholarly articles investigating various aspects of the intersection of law, politics, and contemporary society throughout the world. The six contributions that make up the main body of the text are devoted to comparing accounts of capital punishment in the radical and mainstream press; abortion law, the Supreme Court, and the Republican regime; the legal politics of time in emergencies; gendered racialization and Muslim Americans; and a variety of other related subjects. The editor is a faculty member of Amherst College in Massachusetts.

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