Slave Rebellions and the Making of the Modern Prison reveals how slave rebellions that were brutally crushed in their time shaped the ideas and practices of racial violence that were enacted into law. These liberatory struggles shaped how lawmakers established the legal traditions that created the modern prison.
Property damage constitutes a commonplace feature of global political protest. How then to evaluate it? Rejecting the tendency to conflate it with political violence, William E. Scheuerman grapples with the question of when, if ever, politically motivated property harms are justifiable, drawing on a wide range of timely real-world examples.
Anti-Constitutional Politics and the American Right
Jack Jackson
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 9781512826876
Pub Date: August 2024
Format: Paperback
200 Pages
Drawing upon legal scholarship and critical theory, Jack Jackson explores an ascendant radical and illiberal power on the American Right and considers how it has undermined the very idea of constitutional government.
Edited by Carol J. Greenhouse and Christina L. Davis
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9781512826838
Pub Date: August 2024
Format: Paperback
352 Pages
Landscapes of Law shows that assertions of national culture are not always a retreat from globalism but a way of managing the contested zone between borderless capital and bordered states. A roster of international, interdisciplinary contributors offer innovative, ethnographic analyses of the ways culture works through transnational law.
Domestic Courts and the Selective Enforcement of International Human Rights
Chris Kendall
Price: $64.95
ISBN: 9781512826210
Pub Date: July 2024
Format: Hardcover
256 Pages
Between Possibility and Peril explains how the highest courts in three young democracies—Colombia, Mexico, and South Africa—used international law to protect human rights while building their own institutional legitimacy, carefully balancing the demands of advocates, politicians, and international law itself.
Advertising and Trademarks in Nineteenth-Century America
Jennifer M. Black
Price: $49.95
ISBN: 9781512825008
Pub Date: December 2023
Format: Hardcover
320 Pages
After 1830, printers, entrepreneurs, and admen devised visual and textual strategies that would appeal to consumers, gain their trust, and solidify brand identity. Jennifer M. Black argues this visual language of trust—symbolized in the trademark—grew out of middle-class ideas and has come to define both American consumer culture and trademark law.
A history of immigration policy in the United States and the world, Deportation chronicles the unsystematic emergence of what has become an internationally recognized legal doctrine, the far-reaching impact of which forever altered what it means to be an immigrant and a citizen.
Human Rights as Human Independence offers a comprehensive, systematic, and complete account of the nature, sources, and scope of human rights that can be used to interpret international documents and make informed decisions about how human rights practice must be continued in the years to come.
