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1. Cover image for 'Biblical Judgments'
New Legal Readings in the Hebrew Bible
Daphne Barak-Erez
Analyzes the classical stories of the Hebrew Bible through the lens of modern law
Format Publication year Price Status Purchasing option
Web Open Access Forthcoming
2. Cover image for 'Making Endless War'
The Vietnam and Arab-Israeli Conflicts in the History of International Law
Brian Cuddy and Victor Kattan, Editors
How two conflicts have shaped the relationship between law and war since 1945
Format Publication year Price Status Purchasing option
Web Open Access Forthcoming
3. Cover image for 'Bad Boys'
Public Schools in the Making of Black Masculinity
with a foreword by Pedro A. Noguera
Ann Arnett Ferguson
The classic ethnography on how implicit bias impacts black male students’ identities
Format Publication year Price Status Purchasing option
Ebook 2020 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Bad Boys"
Audio Download 2021 Available View Purchasing Options for Audio Download, "Bad Boys"
3. Cover image for 'Bad Boys'
Public Schools in the Making of Black Masculinity
with a foreword by Pedro A. Noguera
Ann Arnett Ferguson
Format Publication year Price Status Purchasing option
Ebook 2020 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Bad Boys"
Audio Download 2021 Available View Purchasing Options for Audio Download, "Bad Boys"
4. Cover image for 'The Truth Machines'
Policing, Violence, and Scientific Interrogations in India
Jinee Lokaneeta
Interrogation as a site of state sanctioned torture and violence
Format Publication year Price Status Purchasing option
Ebook 2020 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "The Truth Machines"
5. Cover image for 'Keeping Hold of Justice'
Encounters between Law and Colonialism
Jennifer Balint, Julie Evans, Nesam McMillan, and Mark McMillan
Colonialism is a structural injustice embedded in law; what possibilities for justice remain?
Format Publication year Price Status Purchasing option
Ebook 2020 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Keeping Hold of Justice"
6. Cover image for 'Hybrid Justice'
The Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia
John D. Ciorciari and Anne Heindel
A definitive scholarly treatment of the ECCC from legal and political perspectives
Format Publication year Price Status Purchasing option
Audio Download Available View Purchasing Options for Audio Download, "Hybrid Justice"
Web 2014 Open Access Available Read Online
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The Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia
John D. Ciorciari and Anne Heindel
A definitive scholarly treatment of the ECCC from legal and political perspectives
Format Publication year Price Status Purchasing option
Audio Download Available View Purchasing Options for Audio Download, "Hybrid Justice"
Web 2014 Open Access Available Read Online
7. Cover image for 'The Jurisprudence of Emergency'
Colonialism and the Rule of Law
With a new Foreword by Antony Anghie and Preface by Austin Sarat
Nasser Hussain
The tension between the ideology of liberty and government by law in British India shaped the development of colonial rule, and thus, Western legality
Format Publication year Price Status Purchasing option
Ebook 2019 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "The Jurisprudence of Emergency"
8. Cover image for 'Punishment and Political Order'
Keally McBride
An incisive, eminently readable study of the evolving relationship between punishment and social order
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Web 2007 Open Access Available Read Online
9. Cover image for 'Archiving Sovereignty'
Law, History, Violence
Stewart Motha
How courts repeat historical fictions that maintain sources of colonial power
Format Publication year Price Status Purchasing option
Ebook 2018 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Archiving Sovereignty"
10. Cover image for 'The Holocaust, Corporations, and the Law'
Unfinished Business
Leora Bilsky
An important examination of multinational corporations’ accountability in the era of globalization and the long shadow of the Holocaust
Format Publication year Price Status Purchasing option
Ebook 2017 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "The Holocaust, Corporations, and the Law"
11. Cover image for 'Curating Community'
Museums, Constitutionalism, and the Taming of the Political
Stacy Douglas
Addresses the question of how museums affect the ways we imagine ourselves and our communities
Format Publication year Price Status Purchasing option
Ebook 2017 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Curating Community"
12. Cover image for 'Refining Child Pornography Law'
Crime, Language, and Social Consequences
Edited by Carissa Byrne Hessick
Legal experts, sociologists, and social workers debate the definition of child pornography, the punishment of offenders, and the protection of victims
Format Publication year Price Status Purchasing option
Web 2016 Open Access Available Read Online
13. Cover image for 'The First Global Prosecutor'
Promise and Constraints
Martha Minow, C. Cora True-Frost, and Alex Whiting, editors
Legal scholars and practitioners examine the role of the ICC’s first prosecutor
Format Publication year Price Status Purchasing option
Ebook 2015 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "The First Global Prosecutor"
14. Cover image for 'The Justice of Mercy'
Linda Ross Meyer

Is there room for mercy in a system of justice?

Format Publication year Price Status Purchasing option
Ebook 2010 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "The Justice of Mercy"
15. Cover image for 'Among the Lowest of the Dead'
The Culture of Capital Punishment
David Von Drehle
"Perhaps the finest book ever written about capital punishment"
---The Chicago Tribune
Format Publication year Price Status Purchasing option
Ebook 2010 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Among the Lowest of the Dead"
16. Cover image for 'The Powers that Punish'
Prison and Politics in the Era of the "Big House", 1920-1955
Charles Bright
Format Publication year Price Status Purchasing option
Ebook 2010 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "The Powers that Punish"
17. Cover image for 'Russia's Legal Fictions'
Harriet Murav
Explores the relationship between law, literature, and authority in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Russia
Format Publication year Price Status Purchasing option
Ebook 2010 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Russia's Legal Fictions"
18. Cover image for 'Legal Modernism'
David Luban
A critique and defense of modern legal theory
Format Publication year Price Status Purchasing option
Ebook 2010 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Legal Modernism"
19. Cover image for 'The Politics of Community Policing'
Rearranging the Power to Punish
William Lyons
Community policing, the author argues, does not necessarily empower the community but often increases the power of the police
Format Publication year Price Status Purchasing option
Ebook 2010 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "The Politics of Community Policing"
20. Cover image for 'The Possibility of Popular Justice'
A Case Study of Community Mediation in the United States
Sally Engle Merry and Neal Milner, Editors
Can popular justice ever be a real alternative to the violence and coercion of state law?
Format Publication year Price Status Purchasing option
Ebook 2010 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "The Possibility of Popular Justice"
21. Cover image for 'Communities and Law'
Politics and Cultures of Legal Identities
Gad Barzilai
Offers an alternative approach to liberalism and to communitarianism, with an empirical focus on Israel
Format Publication year Price Status Purchasing option
Ebook 2010 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Communities and Law"
22. Cover image for 'Law and the Postmodern Mind'
Essays on Psychoanalysis and Jurisprudence
Peter Goodrich and David Gray Carlson, Editors
Explores the connections between psychoanalysis and law
Format Publication year Price Status Purchasing option
Ebook 2009 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Law and the Postmodern Mind"
23. Cover image for 'Lives of Lawyers Revisited'
Transformation and Resilience in the Organizations of Practice
Michael J. Kelly
A profound ethnographic analysis of how lawyers understand and respond to sweeping changes in the legal profession
Format Publication year Price Status Purchasing option
Ebook 2009 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Lives of Lawyers Revisited"
24. Cover image for 'Transformative Justice'
Israeli Identity on Trial
Leora Bilsky
Can Israel be both Jewish and democratic?
Format Publication year Price Status Purchasing option
Ebook 2009 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Transformative Justice"
25. Cover image for 'Law Stories'
Gary Bellow and Martha Minow, Editors
Accounts of law problems and the way they were handled, written by the responsible lawyers
Format Publication year Price Status Purchasing option
Ebook 2009 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Law Stories"
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Our EPUB and PDFs may be read using free Adobe Digital Editions software. Digital Editions is available for PC, Mac, major mobile platforms, and many e-reader devices. Visit the Adobe Digital Editions Supported Ebook Devices page for a complete list of e-reader devices that are compatible with the software and their FAQ page for other questions about the software.

Available Ebook reading systems vary widely in their support for accessibility features. For EPUB, visit EPUB Test for accessibility support information for specific platforms. Contact us if you have a question about the best reading system for your needs at umpress.accessibility@umich.edu.

Our Ebooks are currently offered under a single-user license, which means that your Ebook can be accessed by using one Adobe ID. Any computer authorized to this Adobe ID will be able to open the file. Learn more at the Adobe ID and Membership FAQ page.

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