Laws Infamy by Austin Sarat PAPERBACK 9781479812097

Laws Infamy\nby Austin Sarat\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Austin Sarat\nTitle: Laws Infamy\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Law and society, sociology of law\nPublisher: New York University Press\nPublication year: 2021\nISBN-13: 9781479812097\nISBN-10: 1479812099\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nAn analysis of how problematic laws ought to be framed and consideredFrom the murder of George Floyd to the systematic dismantling of voting rights, our laws and their implementation are actively shaping the course of our nation. But however abhorrent a legal decision might bewhether Dred Scott v. Sanford or Plessy v. Fergusonthe stories we tell of the law's failures refer to their injustice and rarely label them in the language of infamy. Yet in many instances, infamy is part o.