Studies in Law Politics and Society Studies in Law Politics and Society Book 20 (Hardcover)

This volume of Studies in Law Politics and Society presents a diverse array of articles by an interdisciplinary and international group of scholars. Their work spans the social sciences humanities and law. It examines new perspectives on the relationship of law and values and race and the law. The articles published here exemplify the exciting and innovative work now being done in interdisciplinary legal scholarship. TABLE OF CONTENTS: List of contributors; Law and Values: Interpretive freedom and divine law: early rabbinic renderings of divine justice (C. Halberstam); Rawls law of peoples: an expansion of the prioritization of political over religious values (E. Carpenter); Post modernity and the fading of individual responsibility (J. Krapp); Race in Law; Passing phantasms/sanctioning perfomativities: (re)reading white masculinity in Rhinelander v. Rhine lander (N. Hers); Tortious race race torts: hate speech intentional infliction and the problem of harm (P.L. Rivers); Before or against the law? Citizens legal beliefs and experiences as death penalty jurors (B. Steiner).