John Brigham

Material Law: A Jurisprudence of What's Real

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

How law defines people, places, and things

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Temple University Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: Juli 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9781592139644
• ISBN-10: 1592139647
• Artikelnr.: 25942996

Autorenporträt

John Brigham is Professor of Political Science at University of Massachusetts Amherst. He has been a member of the Board of Trustees of the (American) Law and Society Association and a Fellow of the International Institute for the Sociology of Law. He is the author of The Cult of the Court and Property and the Politics of Entitlement (both Temple).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface 
Acknowledgments
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1. The Map and the Territory 
2. The Public in the Womb 
3. Habeas Corpus at the Temple
PART II: Constituting Legal Spaces 
4. Law’s Neighborhoods 
5. De Facto Discrimination and the Double Standard 
6. Occupied Territories
PART III: Materializing Law 
7. Law Buildings 
8. Commodity Form as Law 
9. Global Legal Constructs 
Index