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Studies in Law, Politics, andSociety provides a vehicle for the publication of scholarly articles within the broad parameters of interdisciplinary legal scholarship. In this latest editionof this highly successful research series, chapters examine a diverse range oflegal issues and their impact on and intersections with society. This volume features a special section with papers dedicated to life after imprisonment. The chapters examine issues around offender rehabilitation, mass incarceration, and overcriminalization. Other papers included in this important volume address the shift in attitudes to solitary confinement (and the prospect of moving beyond solitary confinement measures) and private prison services. This volume brings together leading scholars and will be vital reading for all those researching in this subject area.

This special issue of Studies in Law, Politics, and Society aims to foster a dialogue that is inclusive, constructive, and innovative in order to lay the basis for evaluating the usefulness and impact of cultural expertise in modern litigation. It investigates the scope of cultural expertise as a new socio-legal concept that broadly concerns the use of social sciences in connection with rights and the solution of conflicts. While the definition of cultural expertise is new, the conflicts it applies to are not, and these range from criminal law to civil law, including international human rights. In this special issue, socio-legal scientists with interdisciplinary backgrounds scrutinize the applicability of the notion of cultural expertise in Europe and the rest of the World. Cases include murder, female genital mutilation, earthquake claims, Islamic law, underage marriages, child custody, adoption, land rights, and asylum. The authors debate on a variety of themes, such as legal pluralism, ethnicity, causal determinism, reification of culture, and the "culturalization" of defendants. The volume concludes with an overview of the ethical implications of the definition of cultural expertise and suggestions for a way forward.

Studies in Law, Politics, and Society provides a vehicle for the publication of scholarly articles in interdisciplinary legal scholarship. This volume features a special section with papers dedicated to law and disability. The chapters examine issues of HIV, obesity, disability rights, assisted suicide and prenatal testing

Studies in Law, Politics, and Society provides a vehicle for the publication of scholarly articles in interdisciplinary legal scholarship. This volume features a special section with papers dedicated to life after imprisonment. The chapters examine issues around offender rehabilitation, overcriminalization, and mass incarceration

This volume focusses on Law and the Imagining of Difference with each chapter examining how law responds to the claims of difference, how and when it recognizes difference and accommodates it, as well as when and why such recognition and accommodation is resisted. Topics covered include disability, same-sex marriage and gender equality

6. Conclusion -- Transformation Through AssimilationNotes; Acknowledgments; References; Chapter 2: Embodying the Law: Negotiating Disability Identity and Civil Rights; Introduction; Tension between Sameness and Difference; How Difference Is Defined; How Best to Achieve Civil Rights; How to Learn from and Capitalize on Progress; Why Disability Rights Legislation?; History of Oppression and Discrimination; Key Disability Rights Legislation; Americans with Disabilities Act; Individuals with Disabilities Education Act; Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act; Rehabilitation Act.

Studies in Law, Politics, and Society provides a vehicle for the publication of scholarly articles within the broad parameters of interdisciplinary legal scholarship. In this latest edition of this highly successful research series, chapters examine a diverse range of legal issues and their impact on and intersections with society. This volume features a special section with papers dedicated to law and disability. The chapters examine issues of HIV, obesity, disability rights, assisted suicide and prenatal testing. Other papers included in this important volume address the right to education for migrant children in the United States and the rights to citizenship of British children. This volume brings together leading scholars and will be vital reading for all those researching in this subject area.

Studies in Law, Politics, and Society provides a vehicle for the publication of scholarly articles in interdisciplinary legal scholarship. This volume features a special section with papers dedicated to law and disability. The chapters examine issues of HIV, obesity, disability rights, assisted suicide and prenatal testing

This volume focusses on Law and the Imagining of Difference with each chapter examining how law responds to the claims of difference, how and when it recognizes difference and accommodates it, as well as when and why such recognition and accommodation is resisted. Topics covered include disability, same-sex marriage and gender equality

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- CHAPTER ONE: Situating Law Between the Realities of Violence and the Claims of Justice: An Introduction -- CHAPTER TWO: The Vicissitudes of Law's Violence -- CHAPTER THREE: Making Peace with Violence: Robert Cover on Law and Legal Theory -- CHAPTER FOUR: The Silence of the Law: Justice in Cover's "Field of Pain and Death -- CHAPTER FIVE: A Judgment Dwelling in Law: Violence and the Relations of Legal Thought -- CHAPTER SIX: Why the Law Is Also Nonviolent -- The Contributors -- Index

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- CONTENTS -- Preface to the Paperback Edition -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1 Introduction: "If Timothy McVeigh Doesn't Deserve to Die, Who Does? -- PART ONE: State Killing and the Politics of Vengeance -- Chapter 2 The Return of Revenge: Hearing the Voice of the Victim in Capital Trials -- Chapter 3 Killing Me Softly: Capital Punishment and the Technologies for Taking Life -- PART TWO: State Killing in the Legal Process -- Chapter 4 Capital Trials and the Ordinary World of State Killing -- Chapter 5 The Role of the Jury in the Killing State -- Chapter 6 Narrative Strategy and Death Penalty Advocacy: Attempting to Save the Condemned -- PART THREE: The Cultural Life of Capital Punishment -- Chapter 7 To See or Not To See: On Televising Executions -- Chapter 8 State Killing in Popular Culture: Responsibility and Representation in Dead Man Walking, Last Dance, and The Green Mile -- Chapter 9 Conclusion: Toward a New Abolitionism -- Notes -- Index

Studies in Law, Politics, and Society provides a vehicle for the publication of scholarly articles within the broad parameters of interdisciplinary legal scholarship. In this latest edition of this highly successful research series, articles examine a diverse range of legal issues and their impact on and intersections with society.