The secrets of law / Austin Sarat, Lawrence Douglas, Martha Merrill Umphrey.

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TextSeries: Amherst series in law, jurisprudence, and social thoughtPublisher: Stanford, California : Stanford Law Books, [2012]Copyright date: ©2012Description: 1 online resource (269 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

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9780804783903
080478390X

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: No titleDDC classification:

340.115 23

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K487.S43 S43 2012

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Contents:

Transparency and opacity in law : an introduction / Martha Merrill Umphrey, Austin Sarat, and Lawrence Douglas -- Open secrets and dirty hands / Alasdair Roberts -- Secret trials and public justice / Lindsay Farmer -- Spousal secrets : same-sex couples and the functional approach to spousal evidentiary privileges / Edward Stein -- Wilkie Collins' law books : law, literature, and factual precedent / Bernadette Meyler -- Historiographic secrets of the labour contract : the law and literature of Lewis Jones' "Cwmardy" and "We live" / Melanie L. Williams -- Duly noted or off the record? : Sovereignty and the secrecy of the law in cinema / Richard Burt.

Summary: This book 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.

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This book 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.