The Law Is a White Dog: How Legal Rituals Make and Unmake Persons by Colin Dayan - 2011-02-07

Princeton University Press: Princeton, 2011. 343ps. Black Cloth. a touch of rubbing, otherwise as new. Unclipped pictorial jacket has light wear, otherwise as new. The book tackles key societal questions: How does the law construct our identities? How do its rules and sanctions make or unmake persons? And how do the supposedly rational claims of the law define marginal entities, both natural and supernatural, including ghosts, dogs, slaves, terrorist suspects, and felons? . 2nd Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Octavo.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.