Law and the liberal state

• Other Authors: Sarat, Austin
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Bingley, U.K. : Emerald, 2014.
• Series: Studies in law, politics, and society ; v. 65.
• Subjects: Law > General.; Law > Government > General.; Law > Military.; Law & society.; Legal system: general.; Military & defence law.; Sociological jurisprudence.; Neoliberalism.

This special issue of Studies in law, politics and society focuses on law and the liberal state; presenting an interdisciplinary and multifaceted approach to analysis of law and liberty. The first chapters focus on laws direct relationship with the American liberal state. John P. Anderson defends Jo...

Table of Contents:

• Trading truth for legitimacy in the liberal state : defending John Rawls's pragmatism / John P. Anderson
• The neoliberal state's Janus faces of law / Adelaide H. Villmoare, Peter G. Stillman
• Jury nullification : an illiberal defense of liberty / Timothy A. Delaune
• Gays in the military : towards a critical civil rights account / Susan Burgess
• Health care and the disembodied politics of American liberalism / Daniel Skinner
• Nomos and Native American narratives : the duality of law in the liberal state / Beau Breslin, Katherine Cavanaugh.