History, Memory, and the LawAustin Sarat, Thomas R. Kearns University of Michigan Press, 1999 M10 28 - 336 páginas The essays in this book examine law as an active participant in the process through which history is written and memory is constructed. Instead of seeing law as a "victim" of history, the writers treat law as an author of history, not just in the instrumental sense in which law can be said to make a difference in society, but in the ways that law constructs and uses history. Law looks to the past as it speaks to present needs. In the production of judicial opinions--supposedly definitive statements of what the law is--judges reconstruct law's past, tracing out lines of legal precedent that arguably "compel" their decisions. These essays consider how law treats history, how history appears in legal decisions, and how the authority of history is used to authorize legal decisions. Furthermore, law plays a role in the construction of memory. The writers here ask how law remembers and records the past as well as how it helps us to remember our past. Law in the modern era is one of the most important of our society's technologies for preserving memory. In helping to construct our memory in certain ways law participates in the writing of our collective history. It plays a crucial role in knitting together our past, present, and future. The essays in this volume present grounded examinations of particular problems, places, and practices and address the ways in which memory works in and through law, the sites of remembrance that law provides, the battles against forgetting that are fought in and around those sites, and the resultant role law plays in constructing history. The writers also inquire about the way history is mobilized in legal decision making, the rhetorical techniques for marshalling and for overcoming precedent, and the different histories that are written in and through the legal process. The contributors are Joan Dayan, Soshana Felman, Dominic La Capra, Reva Siegel, Brook Thomas, and G. Edward White. Austin Sarat is William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science and Professor of Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought, Amherst College. He is past President of the Law and Society Association and current President of the Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities. Thomas R. Kearns is William H. Hastie Professor of Philosophy and Professor of Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought, Amherst College. |
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... literary texts can be read in par- ticular contexts , and they call on us to remember the situatedness and contingency of all readings . When faced with literary texts that are in some sense transgressive , law , LaCapra suggests , will ...
... literary texts can be read in par- ticular contexts , and they call on us to remember the situatedness and contingency of all readings . When faced with literary texts that are in some sense transgressive , law , LaCapra suggests , will ...
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... literary text is , on the other hand , a search for meaning , for expression , for heightened significance , and for symbolic understand- ing . I propose to make use of this difference in literary and legal goals , by reading them ...
... literary text is , on the other hand , a search for meaning , for expression , for heightened significance , and for symbolic understand- ing . I propose to make use of this difference in literary and legal goals , by reading them ...
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... literary plot and / or on the psychol- ogy or the sociology of literary characters whose fate or whose profes- sion ties them to the law ( lawyers , judges , or accused ) . My approach here will be different . I will compare a trial to ...
... literary plot and / or on the psychol- ogy or the sociology of literary characters whose fate or whose profes- sion ties them to the law ( lawyers , judges , or accused ) . My approach here will be different . I will compare a trial to ...
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Writing History and Registering Memory | 1 |
Traumatic Narratives | 25 |
Prisons and the Law | 183 |
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