Cannons and Codes
Law, Literature, and America's Wars
It can be said that western literature begins with a war story, the Iliad; and that this is true too of many non-Western literary traditions, such as the Mahabharata. And yet, though a profoundly human subject, war often appears to be by definition outside the realm of structures such as law and literature. When we speak of war, we often understand it as incapable of being rendered into rules or words. Lawyers struggle to fit the horrors of the battlefield, the torture chamber, or the makeshift hospital filled with wounded and dying civilians into the framework of legible rules and shared understandings that law assumes and demands. In the We…
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Weitere Autoren: Masur, Jonathan S. (Hrsg.) / Nussbaum, Martha C. (Hrsg.) / Weinrib, Laura (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-0-19-750938-8
- EAN: 9780197509388
- Produktnummer: 35856589
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
- Seitenangabe: 320 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 19'747 KB
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Alison L. LaCroix is Robert Newton Reid Professor of Law and an Associate Member of the Department of History at the University of Chicago.Jonathan S. Masur is the John P. Wilson Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School.Martha C. Nussbaum is Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics in the Law School and the Philosophy Department at the University of ChicagoLaura Weinrib is Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and Suzanne Young Murray Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.Laura Weinrib is Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and Suzanne Young Murray Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.
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