In this book, editor Austin Sarat presents readers with a collection of academic essays and scholarly articles investigating various aspects of the intersection of law, politics, and contemporary society throughout the world. The six contributions that make up the main body of the text are devoted to comparing accounts of capital punishment in the radical and mainstream press; abortion law, the Supreme Court, and the Republican regime; the legal politics of time in emergencies; gendered racialization and Muslim Americans; and a variety of other related subjects. The editor is a faculty member of Amherst College in Massachusetts.
