TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sarat,Austin
AU  - Garth,Bryant
AU  - Kagan,Robert A.
TI  - Looking Back at Law's Century
SN  - 9781501718427
AV  - KF371.A2 .L665 2002 
U1  - 349.73 
PY  - 2002///
CY  - Ithaca
PB  - Cornell University Press
KW  - Law-United States-History-20th century-Congresses
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Cover -- Looking Back at Law's Century -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- INTRODUCTORY ESSAY Facilitating and Domesticating Change: Democracy, Capitalism, and Law's Double Role in the Twentieth Century -- I. CITIZENSHIP, RIGHTS, AND POLITICS -- The Idea of Political Freedom Owen Fiss -- Instituting Universal Human Rights Law: The Invention of Tradition in the Twentieth Century -- Racial Justice: Moral or Political? -- II. LAW AND THE CONSTITUTION OF SELVES AND SOCIETY -- Visions of Self-Control: Fashioning a Liberal Approach to Crime and Punishment in the Twentieth Century -- Twentieth-Century Legal Metaphors for Self and Society -- Citizenship, Agency, and the Dream of Time -- Ill. REGULATORY PROCESSES IN SOCIETY AND ECONOMY -- The Rhetoric of Community: Civil Society and the Legal Order -- Law and the Corporation -- The Legal Origins of the Modern American State -- IV. LAW, LAWYERS, AND THE MARKETING OF LAW -- The Legal Profession -- Professing Law: Elite Law School Professors in the Twentieth Century -- The Twentieth-Century Discipline of International Law in the United States -- Index
N2  - This book describes a century of tremendous legal change, of inspiring legal developments, and profound failures. The twentieth century took the United States from the Progressive Era's optimism about law and social engineering to current concerns
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