The Secrets of Law - 9780804782593

The Secrets of LawAuthor(s): Austin Sarat, Lawence Douglas, Martha Merrill Umphrey\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Stanford University Press, United States\nImprint: Stanford University Press\nISBN-13: 9780804782593, 978-0804782593\nSynopsis\nThe Secrets of Law explores the ways law both traffics in and regulates secrecy. Taking a close look at the opacity built into legal and governance processes, it explores the ways law produces zones of secrecy, the relation between secrecy and justice, and how we understand the inscrutability of law's processes.\n\n The first half of the work examines the role of secrecy in contemporary political and legal practicesincluding the question of transparency in democratic processes during the Bush Administration, the principle of public justice in England's response to the war on terror, and the evidentiary law of spousal privilege. The second half of the book explores legal, literary, and filmic representations of secrets in law, focusing on how knowl.