TITLE: MERCIFUL JUDGMENTS AND CONTEMPORARY SOCIETY: LEGAL
PROBLEMS, LEGAL POSSIBILITIES
PUBLISHER: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY LANGUAGE: ENGLISH
LINK: http://is.gd/IshCHn RELEASE TYPE: RETAIL
FORMAT: PDF RELEASE DATE: 2014.06.21
ISBN: 9781139181075 STORE DATE: 2013
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AUTHOR: AUSTIN SARAT

BOOK

Merciful Judgments in Contemporary Society: Legal Problems/Legal
Possibilities explores the tension between law's need for and
dependence on merciful judgments and suspicions that regularly
accompany them. Rather than focusing primarily on definitional
questions or the longstanding debate about the moral worth and
importance of mercy, this book focuses on mercy as a part of, and
problem, for law

Whether one starts from a worry about rules and discretion, about
the attitudes of citizens and their leaders, or ways to undo the
past, merciful judgments challenge and perplex, just as they help
to sustain, our legal system. Charting these possibilities and
problems is the work that this book seeks to do. Here we ask what
challenges merciful judgments pose for law? When and why do those
judgments encourage and nurture legal ingenuity and
resourcefulness? When and why do they precipitate crises and
breakdowns in legal authority?

This book is a product of The University of Alabama School of Law
symposia series on "Law, Knowledge & Imagination." This series
explores the ways law is known and imagined in a diverse array of
disciplines, including political science, history, cultural
studies, philosophy, and science. In addition, books produced
through the Alabama symposia explore various conjunctions of law
knowledge, and imagination as they play out in debates about
theory and policy and speak to venerable questions as well as
contemporary issues