A World without Privacy
What Law Can and Should Do?
$320.20
- Hardcover
287 pages
- Release Date
4 December 2014
Summary
Recent revelations about America’s National Security Agency offer a reminder of the challenges posed by the rise of the digital age for American law. These challenges refigure the meaning of autonomy and of the word ‘social’ in an age of new modalities of surveillance and social interaction. Each of these developments seems to portend a world without privacy, or in which the meaning of privacy is transformed, both as a legal idea and a lived reality. Each requires us to rethink the role of la…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781107081215 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1107081211 |
| Author: | Austin Sarat |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| Imprint: | Cambridge University Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 287 |
| Release Date: | 4 December 2014 |
| Weight: | 530g |
| Dimensions: | 235mm x 158mm x 18mm |
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About The Author
Austin Sarat
Austin Sarat is William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence Political Science at Amherst College, where he is also Associate Dean of the Faculty, and Justice Hugo L. Black Senior Faculty Scholar at the University of Alabama School of Law. He is the author or editor of numerous books, including Gruesome Spectacles: Botched Executions and America’s Death Penalty (with Katherine Blumstein, Aubrey Jones, Heather Richard, and Madeline Sprung-Keyser, 2014); Re-imagining To Kill a Mockingbird: Family, Community, and the Possibility of Equal Justice under Law (2013); Legal Responses to Religious Practices in the United States: Accommodation and its Limits (2012); and Civility, Legality, and the Limits of Justice (2014). Sarat is the editor of the journals Law, Culture and the Humanities and Studies in Law, Politics and Society. His book When Government Breaks the Law: Prosecuting the Bush Administration was named one of the best books of 2010 by the Huffington Post.
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