{"product_id":"law-and-democracy-in-the-james-boyd-white-9780472116843","title":"Law and Democracy in the Empire of Force","description":"The authors of this book share a concern for the state of law and democracy in our country, which to many seems to have deteriorated badly. Deep changes are visible in a wide array of phenomena: judicial opinions, the teaching of law, legal practice, international relations, legal scholarship, congressional deliberations, and the culture of contemporary politics. In each of these intersections between law, culture, and politics, traditional expectations have been transformed in ways that pose a threat to the continued vitality and authority of law and democracy.The authors analyze specific instances in which such a decline has occurred or is threatened, tracing them to \"the empire of force,\" a phrase borrowed from Simone Weil. This French intellectual applied the term not only to the brute force used by police and soldiers but, more broadly, to the underlying ways of thinking, talking, and imagining that make that sort of force possible, including propaganda, unexamined ideology, sentimental clichés, and politics by buzzwords, all familiar cultural forms.Based on the underlying crisis and its causes, the editors and authors of these essays agree that neither law nor democracy can survive where the empire of force dominates. Yet each manages to find a ground for hope in our legal and democratic culture.H. Jefferson Powell is Frederic Cleaveland Professor of Law and Divinity at Duke University and has served in both the federal and state governments, as a deputy assistant attorney general and as principal deputy solicitor general in the U.S. Department of Justice and as special counsel to the attorney general of North Carolina. His latest book is \u003ci\u003eConstitutional Conscience: The Moral Dimension of Judicial Decision.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJames Boyd White is Hart Wright Professor of Law emeritus and Professor of English emeritus, at the University of Michigan. His latest book is \u003ci\u003eLiving Speech: Resisting the Empire of Force.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"An extraordinary collection of provocative, insightful, and inspiring essays on the future of law and democracy in the twenty-first century.\"\u003cbr\u003e---Geoffrey R. Stone, Edward H. Levi Distinguished Service Professor of Law, University of Chicago\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"These thoughtful essays diagnose democracy's perilous present, and---more importantly---they explore avenues to democracy's rescue through humanization of law.\"\u003cbr\u003e---Kenneth L. Karst, David G. Price and Dallas P. Price Professor of Law Emeritus, UCLA\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContributors\u003cbr\u003eMartin Böhmer, Universidad de San Andres, Buenos Aires, Argentina\u003cbr\u003eM. Cathleen Kaveny, University of Notre Dame\u003cbr\u003eHoward Lesnick, University of Pennsylvania\u003cbr\u003eThe Honorable John T. Noonan Jr., Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals\u003cbr\u003eH. Jefferson Powell, Duke University\u003cbr\u003eJedediah Purdy, Duke University\u003cbr\u003eJed Rubenfeld, Yale University\u003cbr\u003eA.W. Brian Simpson, University of Michigan\u003cbr\u003eBarry Sullivan, Jenner and Block LLP, Chicago\u003cbr\u003eJoseph Vining, University of Michigan\u003cbr\u003eRobin West, Georgetown University\u003cbr\u003eJames Boyd White, University of Michigan\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e James Boyd White,H. Jefferson Powell\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0472116843\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780472116843\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Michigan Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/01\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 296\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.20w x 1.10d","brand":"James Boyd White","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48086706258175,"sku":"9780472116843","price":84.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_b8b8064b-2d23-4b29-95a5-4dd8238fc7ce.jpg?v=1769096106","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/law-and-democracy-in-the-james-boyd-white-9780472116843","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}