Material Law

John Brigham is Professor of Political Science at University of Massachusetts Amherst. He has been a member of the Board of Trustees of the (American) Law and Society Association and a Fellow of the International Institute for the Sociology of Law. He is the author of The Cult of the Court and Property and the Politics of Entitlement (both Temple).

• Preface AcknowledgmentsPART I: Theorizing Material Life/b> 1. The Map and the Territory 2. The Public in the Womb 3. Habeas Corpus at the TemplePART II: Constituting Legal Spaces 4. Law’s Neighborhoods 5. De Facto Discrimination and the Double Standard 6. Occupied TerritoriesPART III: Materializing Law 7. Law Buildings 8. Commodity Form as Law 9. Global Legal Constructs Index

"Brigham admirably aims to situate his contribution within a larger critical tradition in law and within the law and society movement in particular.... Readers already well versed in the law and society literature will find in Material Law some provocative observations and piquant theoretical claims." -The Law and Politics Book Review