Bøger i Law, Meaning & Violence serien

Discusses the dilemmas of the relationship between the liberal state and capital punishment

The terrorist attacks of 9/11, followed by the expose of torture in US detainment camps, dampened hopes for a peaceful world in the 21st century and challenged the belief that humanity was on a course of progress toward rational deliberation, the rule of law, and human rights. This book investigates the reasons for the resort to violence.

How do schools identify African American males as "bad boys"?

Challenges the moral basis for the authority of law.

Focuses on British colonialism in India from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth century to demonstrate how questions of law and emergency shaped colonial rule, which in turn affected the place of colonialism in modern law, depicting the colonies not as passive recipients but as agents in the delineation of Western ideas and practices.