Essential writings of the leading scholar of law and violence

Challenges the moral basis for the authority of law

In this timely study of the historical, ideological, and formal interdependencies of the novel and human rights, Joseph Slaughter demonstrates that the twentiet

African Americans have experienced life under the rule of law in quite different contexts from those of whites, and they have written about those differences in

These narratives of violence, theft, disruptive sexuality, and rebellion compelled their readers to sort through fragmentary or contested evidence, anticipating