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It has long been standard practice in legal studies to identify the place of law within the social order. And yet, as The Place of Law suggests, the meaning of the concept of "the place of law" is not self-evident.This book helps us see how the law defines territory and attempts to keep things in place; it shows how law can be, and is, used to create particular kinds of places -- differentiating, for example, individual property from public land. And it looks at place as a metaphor that organizes the way we see the world. This important new book urges us to ask about the usefulness of metaphors of place in the design of legal regulation.
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The Place of Law
The Amherst Series in Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought
Each work included in The Amherst Series in Law, Jurisprudence,
and Social Thought explores a theme crucial to an understanding of
law as it confronts the changing social and intellectual currents of the
twenty-first century.
Works edited by Austin Sarat and Thomas R. Kearns
The Fate of Law
Law's Violence
Law in Everyday Life
The Rhetoric of Law
Identities, Politics, and Rights
Legal Rights: Historical and Philosophical Perspectives
Justice and Injustice in Law and Legal Theory
Law in the Domains of Culture
Cultural Pluralism, Identity Politics, and the Law
History, Memory, and the Law
Human Rights: Concepts, Contests, Contingencies
Works edited by Austin Sarat, Lawerence Douglas,
and Martha Merrill Umphrey
Lives in the Law
Law's Madness
The Place of Law
The Place of Law
EDITED BY
Austin Sarat,
Lawrence Douglas,
AND
Martha Merrill Umphrey
The University of Michigan Press
Ann Arbor
First paperback edition 2006
Copyright © by the University of Michigan 2003
All rights reserved
Published in the United States of America by
The University of Michigan Press
Manufactured in the United States of America
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
The place of law / edited by Austin Sarat, Lawrence Douglas, and Martha
Merrill Umphrey.
p. cm.-
(Amherst series in law, jurisprudence, and social
thought)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-472-11350-X (cloth : alk. paper)
1. Law-Methodology. 2. Exterritoriality 3. Jurisdiction
4. International and municipal law. I. Sarat, Austin. II. Douglas,
Lawrence. III. Umphrey, Martha Merrill. IV. Series.
K212 .P58 2003
340'.1-dc21
First paperback edition 2006 Copyright ©by the University of Michigan 2003 All rights reserved Published in the United States of America by The University of Michigan Press Manufactured in the United States of America @ Printed on acid-free paper
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ISBN 0-472-03158-9 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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ISBNI3 978-o-472-o3158-o (pbk.: alk. paper)
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