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  • Literary Criticisms of Law

    In this book, the first to offer a comprehensive examination of the emerging study of law as literature, Guyora Binder and Robert Weisberg show that law is not only a scheme of social order, but also a process of creating meaning, and a crucial dimension of modern culture. They present lawyers as literary innovators, who creatively interpret legal authority, narrate disputed facts and hypothetical ... Read more

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  • Felony Murder

    by Guyora Binder ...
    Series series Critical Perspectives on Crime and Law
    The felony murder doctrine is one of the most widely criticized features of American criminal law. Legal scholars almost unanimously condemn it as irrational, concluding that it imposes punishment without fault and presumes guilt without proof. Despite this, the law persists in almost every U.S. jurisdiction.Felony Murder is the first book on this controversial legal doctrine. It shows that felony ... Read more

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  • Criminal Law

    by Guyora Binder ...
    Series series Oxford Introductions to U.S. Law
    Many controversies in American criminal law reflect the tension between older and newer conceptions of the purposes of punishment. The English common law of crimes enforced a royal peace by conditioning punishment on unauthorized force and harm to particular victims. The story of American criminal law has been the emergence of a more utilitarian conception of criminal offending as the imposition ... Read more

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  • The Sociology of Law

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  • Exploring Law's Empire

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  • Excitable Speech

    A Politics of the Performative

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