Blackwell Companion to Law and Society (eBook)

Austin Sarat is William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science at Amherst College. He was President of the Law and Society Association in 1998-1999, and is currently president of the Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities. He is the author or editor of over 50 books, including Cultural Pluralism. Identity Politics and the Law (edited with Thomas Kearns, 1999), Cause Lawyering and the State in a Global Era (edited with Stuart Scheingold, 2001), Pain, Death, and the Law (2001), When the State Kills: Capital Punishment and the American Condition (2001), and Human Rights: Concepts, Contests, Contingencies (edited with Thomas R. Kearns, 2001).

"This collection of law and society scholarship fills a gap that
many of us in the field have lamented for years. Encyclopedic in
scope, it manages to represent the rich diversity of the field
while still making a strong case for a law and society "canon". It
is bound to become a classic."

Kitty Calavita, University of California, Irvine

"Austin Sarat and his contributors have compiles a valuable and
authoritative introduction to a substantial body of scholarship and
reflection on the relationship between law and society. this will
be an essential resource for both novice and experienced workers in
this field."

Robert Dingwall, University of Nottingham