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Law and the Stranger
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Law and the Stranger Hardcover - 2010

by Austin Sarat (Editor); Lawrence Douglas (Editor); Martha Merrill Umphrey (Editor)


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Law calls communities into being and constitutes the "we" it governs. This act of defining produces an outside as well as an inside, a border whose crossing is guarded, maintaining the identity, coherence, and integrity of the space and people within. Those wishing to enter must negotiate a complex terrain of defensive mechanisms, expectations, assumptions, and legal proscriptions. Essentially, law enforces the boundary between inside and outside in both physical and epistemological ways.

Law and the Stranger explores the ways law identifies and responds to strangers within and across borders. It analyzes the ambiguous place strangers occupy in communities not their own and reflects on how dealing with strangers challenges the laws and communities that invite or parry them. As the book reveals, strangers are made through law, rather than born through accidents of geography.

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  • Title Law and the Stranger
  • Author Austin Sarat (Editor); Lawrence Douglas (Editor); Martha Merrill Umphrey (Editor)
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Pages 264
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Stanford Law Books, Stanford, CA, U.S.A.
  • Date 2010-07-06
  • Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780804771542 / 0804771545
  • Weight 1.05 lbs (0.48 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.1 x 6.1 x 0.9 in (23.11 x 15.49 x 2.29 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Aliens, Sociological jurisprudence
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2009052925
  • Dewey Decimal Code 342.083

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Citations

  • Reference and Research Bk News, 04/01/2011, Page 175

About the author

Austin Sarat is the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science at Amherst College. Lawrence Douglas is James J. Grosfeld Professor of Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought at Amherst College. Martha Merrill Umphrey is Professor of Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought at Amherst College.
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Stanford, CA, U.S.A.: Stanford Law Books, 2010. Hard Cover. As New/As New. The essays in this book, which were originally prepared for and presented as a seminar series at Amherst College, explore the ways law identifies and responds to strangers within and across borders; they analyze the ambiguous place strangers occupy in communities not their own and reflect on how dealing with strangers challenges the law (tan cover with gold lettering; black & tan pictorial dust jacket; a bright, clean, tight copy in nearly perfect condition)
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