Law's Infamy: Understanding the Canon of Bad Law Sarat Austin
Law's Infamy: Understanding the Canon of Bad Law Sarat Austin An analysis of how problematic laws ought to be framed and consideredFrom the murder of George Floyd to the systematic dismantling of…
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Law's Infamy: Understanding the Canon of Bad Law Sarat Austin
An analysis of how problematic laws ought to be framed and consideredFrom the murder of George Floyd to the systematic dismantling of voting rights, our laws and their implementation are actively shaping the course of our nation. Sanford or Plessy v. But however abhorrent a legal decision might be--whether Dred Scott v.
Yet in many instances, infamy is part of the story law tells about citizens' conduct. Ferguson--the stories we tell of the law's failures refer to their injustice and rarely label them in the language of infamy. Such stories of individual infamy work on both the social and legal level to stigmatize and ostracize people, to mark them as unredeemably other.Law's Infamy seeks to alter that course by making legal actions and decisions the subject of an inquiry about infamy.
Taken together, the essays demonstrate how legal institutions