This special issue of Studies in Law, Politics, and Society examines how law understands the past. Topics covered include the use of legal language to dehumanize slaves in the eighteenth century, the use of history by lawyers and judges to justify existing law or make changes to the law during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
- | Author: Austin Sarat
- | Publisher: Emerald Publishing
- | Publication Date: Sep 04, 2020
- | Number of Pages: 184 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Hardcover
- | ISBN-10: 183982297X
- | ISBN-13: 9781839822971