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The Limits to Union

Same-Sex Marriage and the Politics of Civil Rights

By Jonathan Goldberg-Hiller
Subjects: Law, Cultural Studies, Gender Studies, Political Science
Series: Law, Meaning, and Violence

Offers a case study of the same-sex marriage debate in Hawaii to discuss wider questions of political import

Snarl

In Defense of Stalled Traffic and Faulty Networks

By Ruth A. Miller
Subjects: Political Science, Political Theory, Law, Law and Society, Cultural Studies

It is possible to imagine a theory of democracy and a constitutional history independent of human subjectivity

Music in American Crime Prevention and Punishment

By Lily E. Hirsch
Subjects: Music, Law, Law and Society, American Studies, Cultural Studies

A critical examination of the ways in which music is understood and exploited in American law enforcement and justice

The Lying Brain

Lie Detection in Science and Science Fiction

By Melissa M. Littlefield
Subjects: Cultural Studies, History, Intellectual History, Law, Legal History

A cultural history of deception detection from science to science fiction

No Boundaries

Transnational Latino Gangs and American Law Enforcement

By Tom Diaz
Foreword by Chris Swecker
Subjects: Political Science, Criminology, Law, Criminology, American Studies, Cultural Studies, Latin American Studies, Race and Ethnicity

An alarming report on Latino crime gangs and the efforts of U.S. law enforcement to contain them

Transformative Justice

Israeli Identity on Trial

By Leora Yedida Bilsky
Subjects: Law, Political Science, Cultural Studies, History
Series: Law, Meaning, and Violence

Can Israel be both Jewish and democratic?

Human Rights

Concepts, Contests, Contingencies

Edited by Austin Sarat & Thomas R. Kearns
Subjects: Law, Cultural Studies, Anthropology, Political Science
Series: Amherst Series in Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought

Brings together essays that examine contestation and contingency in today's human rights politics

Cultural Pluralism, Identity Politics, and the Law

Edited by Austin Sarat & Thomas R. Kearns
Subjects: Law, Cultural Studies
Series: Amherst Series in Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought

How do moves to recognize ethnic and cultural identity affect the idea of equality before the law?

Parodies of Ownership

Hip-Hop Aesthetics and Intellectual Property Law

By Richard L. Schur
Subjects: Cultural Studies, African American Studies, Law, Music, Literary Studies

An intriguing interdisciplinary examination of hip hop aesthetics

Law's Madness

Edited by Austin Sarat, Lawrence Douglas, and Martha Umphrey
Subjects: Law, Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, Cultural Studies, Political Science
Series: Amherst Series in Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought

A provocative collection of essays that reveals how the law takes its definition from what it excludes

Backlash Against the ADA

Reinterpreting Disability Rights

Edited by Linda Hamilton Krieger
Subjects: Disability Studies, Law, Political Science, American Politics, Cultural Studies
Series: Corporealities: Discourses of Disability

Disability rights lawyers, activists, and scholars weigh in on the hot-potato issue of the last decade

Every Breath You Take

Stalking Narratives and the Law

By Orit Kamir
Subjects: Cultural Studies, Law, Gender Studies

Examines male and female stalkers in history, literature, and film, and their relationship to contemporary legislation

Whispered Consolations

Law and Narrative in African American Life

By Jon-Christian Suggs
Subjects: African American Studies, Law, Cultural Studies, Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory
Series: Law, Meaning, and Violence

Explores the relationship between African American literature and American law

Confessions, Truth, and the Law

By Joseph D. Grano
Subjects: Law, Cultural Studies

An analysis of the Miranda decision and the rights of the accused in the criminal justice system

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