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LAW'S INFAMY
Understanding the Canon of Bad Law Edited by AUSTIN SARAT, LAWRENCE DOUGLAS, and MARTHA M. UMPHREY An analysis of how problematic laws ought to be framed and considered However abhorrent a legal decision might be—whether Dred Scott v. Sanford or Plessy v. Ferguson—the stories we tell of the law’s failures refer to their injustice and rarely label them in the language of infamy. Law’s Infamy seeks to alter that course by making legal actions and decisions the subject of an inquiry about infamy. Taken together, the essays demonstrate how legal institutions themselves engage in infamous actions and urge that scholars and activists to label them as such. Austin Sarat is William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science at Amherst College. Lawrence Douglas is the James J. Grosfeld Professor of Law, Jurisprudence and Social Thought and Chair of Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought at Amherst College. Martha M. Umphrey is Bertrand H. Snell 1894 Professor in American Government in the Department of Law, Jurisprudence and Social Thought at Amherst College, and President of the Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities.
December 2021 288 pages • 6 x 9 Paper • $30.00S(£22.99) 9781479812097 Cloth • $89.00X(£71.00) 9781479812080 Law
TRUTH AND EVIDENCE NOMOS LXIV
Edited by MELISSA SCHWARTZBERG and PHILIP KITCHER Explores the challenges of governing in a post-truth world In Truth and Evidence, the latest installment in the NOMOS series, Melissa Schwartzberg and Philip Kitcher bring together a distinguished group of interdisciplinary scholars in political science, law, and philosophy to explore the most pressing questions about the role of truth, evidence, and knowledge in government. In nine timely essays, contributors examine what constitutes political knowledge, who counts as an expert, how we should weigh evidence, and what can be done to address deep disinformation. Essential reading for our fraught political moment, Truth and Evidence considers the importance of truth in the face of widespread efforts to turn it into yet another tool of political power. Melissa Schwartzberg is Silver Professor of Politics at New York University. Philip Kitcher is the John Dewey Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus, at Columbia University.
November 2021 240 pages • 5.5 x 8.25 Cloth • $65.00X(£52.00) 9781479811595 In NOMOS - American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy Politics
