Law's mistakes /
"From false convictions to botched executions, from erroneous admission of evidence in a criminal trial to misunderstandings that arise in the process of creating contracts, law is awash in mistakes. The essays in Law's Mistakes explore what law recognizes as errors and the way it responds...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Amherst ; Boston :
University of Massachusetts Press,
2016
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| Series: | Amherst series in law, jurisprudence, and social thought
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| Summary: | "From false convictions to botched executions, from erroneous admission of evidence in a criminal trial to misunderstandings that arise in the process of creating contracts, law is awash in mistakes. The essays in Law's Mistakes explore what law recognizes as errors and the way it responds to them. They identify the jurisprudential and political perspectives that underlie different understandings of what is or is not a legal mistake, and examine the fraught, contested, and evolving relationship between law and error. In addition, they offer templates for thinking about what mistakes can tell us about the aspirations and limits of law, and for understanding how our imagining of law is enabled and shaped by its juxtaposition to a condition labeled 'mistake'"--Unedited summary from book cover |
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| Physical Description: | vii, 178 pages ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 9781625341938 1625341938 9781625341921 162534192X |