Civility, Legality, and Justice in America

Austin Sarat is William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence Political Science at Amherst College, where he is also Associate Dean of the Faculty, and Justice Hugo L. Black Senior Faculty Scholar at the University of Alabama School of Law. He is the author or editor of numerous books, including Gruesome Spectacles: Botched Executions and America's Death Penalty (with Katherine Blumstein, Aubrey Jones, Heather Richard, and Madeline Sprung-Keyser, 2014); Re-imagining To Kill a Mockingbird: Family, Community, and the Possibility of Equal Justice under Law (2013); and Legal Responses to Religious Practices in the United States: Accommodation and its Limits (2012). Sarat is the editor of the journals Law, Culture and the Humanities and Studies in Law, Politics and Society. His book When Government Breaks the Law: Prosecuting the Bush Administration was named one of the best books of 2010 by the Huffington Post.

• Introduction: the meanings and uses of civility Austin Sarat; 1. Disagreement, contempt, and the difficult work of liberal civility Teresa M. Bejan and Bryan Garsten; 2. Civility and formality Jeremy Waldron; 3. Civility and the alien Leti Volpp; 4. Against civility: a feminist perspective Linda M. G. Zerilli; Afterword: civility and the politics of sexuality Heather Elliott.