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Knowing the Suffering of Others
Austin . Ed(S): Sarat
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Paperback. In "Knowing the Suffering of Others," legal scholar Austin Sarat brings together essays that address suffering as it relates to the law, highlighting the ways law imagines suffering and how pain and suffering become jurisprudential facts. Editor(s): Sarat, Austin. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: LAZ; LNA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 408.
In Knowing the Suffering of Others, legal scholar Austin Sarat brings together essays that address suffering as it relates to the law, highlighting the ways law imagines suffering and how pain and suffering become jurisprudential facts.
From fetal imaging to end-of-life decisions, torts to international human rights, domestic violence to torture, and the law of war to victim impact statements, the law is awash in epistemological and ethical problems associated with knowing and imagining suffering. In each of these domains we might ask: How well do legal actors perceive and understand suffering in such varied domains of legal life? ... Read more
In Knowing the Suffering of Others, legal scholar Austin Sarat brings together essays that address suffering as it relates to the law, highlighting the ways law imagines suffering and how pain and suffering become jurisprudential facts.
From fetal imaging to end-of-life decisions, torts to international human rights, domestic violence to torture, and the law of war to victim impact statements, the law is awash in epistemological and ethical problems associated with knowing and imagining suffering. In each of these domains we might ask: How well do legal actors perceive and understand suffering in such varied domains of legal life? ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
The University of Alabama Press United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
Alabama, United States
ISBN
9780817357689
SKU
V9780817357689
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About Austin . Ed(S): Sarat
Austin Sarat is Associate Dean of the Faculty and the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science at Amherst College and the Justice Hugo L. Black Visiting Senior Faculty Scholar at the University of Alabama School of Law. He is the author or editor of over eighty book publications on law and society, including Transitions: Legal Change, Legal ... Read more
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