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Law's madness

edited by Austin Sarat, Lawrence Douglas, and Martha Merrill Umphrey

(The Amherst series in law, jurisprudence, and social thought)

University of Michigan Press, 2006, c2003

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Originally published 2003

Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents of Works

  • Madness and law : an introduction / Martha Merrill Umphrey, Austin Sarat, and Lawrence Douglas
  • Policing stories / Peter Brooks
  • Narrating nymphomania between psychiatry and the law / Elizabeth Lunbeck
  • "A situation so unique that it will probably never repeat itself" : madness, youth, and homicide in twentieth-century criminal jurisprudence / Jonathan Simon
  • The claims of the dead : history, haunted property, and the law / Cathy Caruth
  • Rethinking legal ideals after deconstruction / Drucilla Cornell

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Explores the gray area between the realms of reason and madness.

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