Looking for Law in All the Wrong Places : Justice Beyond and Between.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (321 pages)
- Berkeley Forum in the Humanities Series .
- Berkeley Forum in the Humanities Series .
Cover -- Looking for Law in All the Wrong Places -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- PLACES -- 1. The Wild Life of Law: Domesticating Nature in the Bering Sea, c. 1893 -- 2. Before Emptiness: On the Destructiveness and Impotence of Law -- 3. Spun Dry: Mobility and Jurisdiction in Northern Australia -- 4. Signs of Authority in Indian Country -- 5. Signs of Law -- 6. After Obergefell: On Marriage and Belonging in Carson McCullers's Member of the Wedding -- 7. Secularism, Family Law, and Gender Inequality -- RELIGION -- 8. When Persons Become Firms and Firms Become Persons: Neoliberal Jurisprudence and Evangelical Christianity in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc. -- 9. Is There Jewish Law? The Case of Josephus -- 10. The Protestant Power of Attorney of 1531: A Legalistic History of the Early Reformation in Germany -- 11. Looking for Law in The Confessions of Nat Turner -- PERFORMANCE -- 12. A Vigil at the End of the World -- 13. Invention and Process in Bilski -- 14. "Erudite Curiosity": The Trial of Jean-Jacques Pauvert, Publisher of the Complete Works of the Marquis de Sade, Paris 1958 -- 15. The Trial of Romeo Rosebud -- List of Contributors -- Index.
For most, the right place to look for law is in constitutions, statutes, and judicial opinions. This interdisciplinary collection looks for law in the "wrong places"--sites and spaces in which no formal law appears--geographic regions beyond the law's reach, everyday practices ungoverned by law, works of art that have escaped law's constraints. Beyond showing law to be determined by or determinative of cultural phenomena, the contributors show how law is itself interwoven with language, text, image, and culture.
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Sociological jurisprudence. Law and literature. Law-Social aspects-United States.