Austin Sarat
Author of When the State Kills: Capital Punishment and the American Condition
About the Author
Austin Sarat is William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence & Political Science, Amherst College. Thomas R. Kearns is William H. Hastie Professor of Philosophy & Professor of Law, Jurisprudence, & Social Thought, Amherst College. (Bowker Author Biography)
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Series
Works by Austin Sarat
From Lynch Mobs to the Killing State: Race and the Death Penalty in America (2006) — Editor — 19 copies
Cause Lawyering: Political Commitments and Professional Responsibilities (Oxford Socio-Legal Studies) (1998) 15 copies
Law in Everyday Life (The Amherst Series in Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought) (1993) 12 copies
Studies in Law, Politics and Society (Studies in Law, Politics, and Society) (Studies in Law, Politics, and Society) (2010) 11 copies
Law in the Domains of Culture (The Amherst Series in Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought) (1998) 9 copies
Punishment in Popular Culture (The Charles Hamilton Houston Institute Series on Race and Justice) (2015) — Editor — 6 copies
Rhetorical Processes and Legal Judgments: How Language and Arguments Shape Struggles for Rights and Power (2016) 5 copies
History, Memory, and the Law (The Amherst Series in Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought) (1999) 5 copies
Legal Rights: Historical and Philosophical Perspectives (The Amherst Series in Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought) (1997) 4 copies
Identities, Politics, and Rights (The Amherst Series in Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought) (1995) 4 copies
Cultural Pluralism, Identity Politics, and the Law (The Amherst Series in Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought) (1999) 4 copies
Human Rights: Concepts, Contests, Contingencies (The Amherst Series in Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought) (2002) 4 copies
Teaching Law and Literature (Modern Language Association of America Options for Teaching) (2011) 4 copies
Legal Responses to Religious Practices in the United States: Accomodation and its Limits (2012) 4 copies
Racial reconciliation and the healing of a nation : beyond law and rights (2017) — Editor — 4 copies
Special Issue: Social Movements/Legal Possibilities (Studies in Law, Politics, and Society) (2011) 4 copies
The Road to Abolition?: The Future of Capital Punishment in the United States (Charles Hamilton Houston Institute… (2009) — Editor — 4 copies
Special Issue: Human Rights: New Possibilities/New Problems (Studies in Law, Politics, and Society) (2011) 4 copies
Special Issue: The Legacy of Stuart Scheingold (Studies in Law, Politics, and Society) (2012) 3 copies
Studies in Law, Politics and Society, Volume 42 (Studies in Law, Politics & Society) (2006) 2 copies
Special Issue Constitutional Polilitics in a Conservative Era (Studies in Law, Politics, and Society) (2008) 2 copies
When governments break the law : the rule of law and the prosecution of the Bush administration 2 copies
Special Issue: Vol. 52: Law Firms, Legal Culture, and Legal Practice (Studies in Law, Politics & Society) (2010) 2 copies
Studies in Law, Politics and Society, Volume 43: SPECIAL ISSUE: LAW AND LITERATURE RECONSIDERED (Studies in Law,… (2008) 2 copies
Reimagining To Kill a Mockingbird : family, community, and the possibility of equal justice under law (2013) 2 copies
Identities, Politics and Rights (Amherst Series in Law, Jurisprudence & Social Thought) (1997) 2 copies
Special Issue: Law and the Imagining of Difference (Studies in Law, Politics, and Society) (Studies in Law Politics and… (2018) 1 copy
The Death Penalty on the Ballot: American Democracy and the Fate of Capital Punishment (2019) 1 copy
The Cultural Lives of Capital Punishment: Comparative Perspectives (The Cultural Lives of Law) (2005) 1 copy
Law and Society: The Next Generation (Studies in Law, Politics & Society) (Studies in Law, Politics, and Society) (2010) 1 copy
Human Rights: Concepts, Contests, Contingencies (The Amherst Series in Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought) (2001) 1 copy
Road to Abolition? 1 copy
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- Providence College (BA)
University of Wisconsin (MA, PhD)
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