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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| 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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Table of Contents:
- The legal treatment of mistakes : an introduction / Austin Sarat, Lawrence Douglas, and Martha Umphrey
- Mistaken judgments / Stewart Motha
- How law should avoid mistakes : Alexander Bickel's modernist jurisprudence of "mood" / Kunal M. Parker
- "Mistake" in American criminal law / Jordan M. Steiker
- The ghosts in the "machinery of death" : the rhetoric of mistake in lethal injection reform / Jody Lyneé Madeira
- Mistaken for consensus : hung juries, the Allen charge, and the end of jury deliberation / Sonali Chakravarti
- Law's mistakes, legal pluralism, and the significance of systemic justice / Paul Schiff Berman