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Law's Mistakes
. Ed(S): Sarat, Austin; Douglas, Lawrence; Umphrey, Martha
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Description for Law's Mistakes
Paperback. Explores the things that law recognizes as errors and the way it responds to them. These essays identify the jurisprudential and political perspectives that underlie different understandings of what is or is not a legal mistake, and examine the fraught, contested, and evolving relationship between law and error. Editor(s): Sarat, Austin; Douglas, Lawrence; Umphrey, Martha. Series: The Amherst Series. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBN; JHB; LAQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 525.
From false convictions to botched executions, from erroneous admission of evidence in a criminal trial to misunderstandings that arise in the process of creating contracts, law is awash in mistakes. These mistakes can be unintentional deviations from expected practices or the result of intentional actions that produce unintended negative consequences. They may become part of a process of response and correction or be accepted as an inevitable cost of action. Some mistakes are external to law itself, such as errors in an agreement made by two private parties. Others are made by legal actors in the course of their work; ... Read more
From false convictions to botched executions, from erroneous admission of evidence in a criminal trial to misunderstandings that arise in the process of creating contracts, law is awash in mistakes. These mistakes can be unintentional deviations from expected practices or the result of intentional actions that produce unintended negative consequences. They may become part of a process of response and correction or be accepted as an inevitable cost of action. Some mistakes are external to law itself, such as errors in an agreement made by two private parties. Others are made by legal actors in the course of their work; ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of Massachusetts Press United States
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
Series
The Amherst Series
Number of Pages
200
Place of Publication
Massachusetts, United States
ISBN
9781625341938
SKU
V9781625341938
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About . Ed(S): Sarat, Austin; Douglas, Lawrence; Umphrey, Martha
Austin Sarat is William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science at Amherst College, USA. Lawrence Douglas is James J. Grosfeld Professor of Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought at Amherst College, USA. Martha Umphrey is Bertrand H. Snell 1894 Professor in American Government at Amherst College, USA.
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