02 April 2012

NOTICE: Law, Knowledge, and Imagination


Dean Ken Randall and the School of Law at The University of Alabama are pleased to announce a new book series – Law, Knowledge, and Imagination – edited by Austin Sarat, the Justice Hugo L. Black Visiting Senior Faculty Scholar and the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science at Amherst College,Books in the series, some of which are published by Cambridge University Press and others by The University of Alabama Press, explore the ways law is known and imagined in a diverse array of disciplines, including political science, history, cultural studies, philosophy, and science. The series
examines the conjunctions of law, knowledge, and imagination as they play out in debates about theory and policy and speak to venerable questions as well as contemporary issues.

Books published so far include:


§  Dissenting Voices in American Society: The Role of Judges, Lawyers, and CitizensHTTP://www.amazon.com/Dissenting-Voices-American-Society-Citizens/dp/1107014239Cambridge University Press, January 2012

§  Imagining Legality: Where Law Meets Popular  Culture
HTTP://www.amazon.com/Imagining-Legality-Where-Popular-Culture/dp/0817356789 , University of Alabama Press, September 2011

§  Merciful Judgments and Contemporary Society: Legal Problems, Legal
Possibilities

HTTP://www.amazon.com/Merciful-Judgments-Contemporary-Society-Possibilities/dp/1107008433Cambridge University Press, October 2011

§  Sovereignty, Emergency, Legality
 
HTTP://www.amazon.com/Sovereignty-Emergency-Legality-Austin-Sarat/dp/0521112230Cambridge University Press, February 2010

§  Speech and Silence in American Law
HTTP://www.amazon.com/Speech-Silence-American-Austin-Sarat/dp/0521113377
Cambridge University Press, March 2010

§  Transitions: Legal Change, Legal Meanings
 HTTP://www.amazon.com/Transitions-Legal-Change-Meanings/dp/0817356908University of Alabama Press, June 2012

For more information on the entire series please the Symposium Archives page
here.<HTTP://www.law.ua.edu/programs/symposiums/symposium-archives/>

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