edited by Austin Sarat, Lawrence Douglas, Martha Merrill Umphrey
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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185 pages ;
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24 cm
SERIES
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The Amherst series in law, jurisprudence, and social thought
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references and index
CONTENTS NOTE
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Law and the utopian imagination : an introduction / Lawrence Douglas, Austin Sarat, and Martha Merrill Umphrey -- The one and only law : Walter Benjamin, utopianism and the Second Commandment / James R. Martel -- Law, utopia, event : a constellation of two trajectories / Johan van der Walt -- "What about peace?" : Cotton Mather's millennium and the rise of international law / Nan Goodman -- Globus terraqueus : cosmopolitan law and "fluid geography" in the utopian thinking of Immanuel Kant and Joseph-Pierre Proudhon / Diane Morgan -- Dystopian narratives and legal imagination : tales of noir cities and dark laws / Shulamit Almog