Place of Law

Austin Sarat is William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science at Amherst College.Lawrence Douglas is Professor of Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought at Amherst College.Martha Merrill Umphrey is Associate Professor of Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought at Amherst College.

"The Place of Law is a worthy successor to an outstanding series of edited collections on law and culture. The essays range from the Stalinist Soviet Union to the scientific laboratory, from the Internet to the nation-state and back; they explore why places and metaphors of places seem to matter so much to law, and how new structures of freedom may produce new forms of control." —Jack M. Balkin, Yale Law School