Folkways and law ways : law in American studies / edited by Helle Porsdam.
2001
K487.C8 F65 2001 (Map It)
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Title
Folkways and law ways : law in American studies / edited by Helle Porsdam.
Published
Odense : Odense University Press, 2001.
Distributed
Portland, OR : International Specialized Book Services [distributor for the U.S. and Canada]
Call Number
K487.C8 F65 2001
ISBN
8778385830
Description
256 pages ; 23 cm.
System Control No.
(OCoLC)48895969
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references.
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Table of Contents
Introduction / Helle Porsdam
9
1
Plantation Economy and Legal Safeguards of Sexual Discipline in Early Tobacco Colonies / Irmina Wawrzyczek
33
2
The Irony of Progressive Historiography: A Critical Comment on the Revival of Anti-Federalism in Contemporary Constitutional Thought / Saul Cornell
53
3
"Hunting in the Pond Where the Ducks Are": Conservative Opposition to Civil Rights Legislation in the 1964 Election and Beyond / Niels Bjerne-Poulsen
73
4
Protection under United States Law?: It Depends on Who You Are, Where You Are, What Aspect of Your Job You Are Talking About, and Who Is Trying to Hurt You / Mark Gibney
89
5
Recognizing the Law: Value and Identities in William Gaddis's A Frolic of His Own / Bosse Ekelund
113
6
Dissenting Opinions: William Gaddis and Alan Dershowitz on the Spectacles of Justice / Peter Schneck
139
7
"The Promise of American Life": Derrick Bell, Critical Race Theory, and the American Jeremiad / Marcus Bruce
165
8
Hollywood Courtroom Dramas: The Politics of Judicial Realism / Christophe Den Tandt
183
9
A Brief Cultural History of Corporate Legal Theory and Why American Studies Should Care About It / Eric Guthey
209
10
American Links to Legal Reform in Ireland, 1937-1997: A Study in the International Impact of American Constitutional Law / Michael Boss
229
About the Authors
254