Law''s Infamy: Understanding the Canon of Bad Law

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Austin Sarat (Editor) Austin Sarat is William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science at Amherst College in Amherst Massachusetts. He has written or edited dozens of books including Lethal Injection and the False Promise of Humane Execution Law's Infamy: Understanding the Canon of Bad Law and Cause Lawyering: Political Commitments and Professional Responsibilities and Cause Lawyering and the State in a Global Era which won the 2004 Reginald Heber Smith Book Award. Lawrence Douglas (Editor) Lawrence Douglas is the James J. Grosfeld Professor of Law Jurisprudence and Social Thought and Chair of Law Jurisprudence and Social Thought at Amherst College. Professor Douglas is the author of seven books including The Memory of Judgment: Making Law and History in the Trials of the Holocaust and The Right Wrong Man: John Demjanjuk and the Last Great Nazi War Crimes Trial a New York Times Editors Choice. His most recent book is Will He Go? Trump and the Looming Electoral Meltdown in 2020. Martha M. Umphrey (Editor) Martha Merrill Umphrey is Bertrand H. Snell 1894 Professor in American Government in the Department of Law Jurisprudence and Social Thought at Amherst College and President of the Association for the Study of Law Culture and the Humanities. She is the co-editor of Lives in the Law The Place of Law and The Limits of Law among others.