History, Memory, and the Law (The Amherst Series in Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought) PDF
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History, Memory, and the Law The Amherst Series in Law,Jurisprudence, and Social Thought Eachworkincluded inTheAmherst SeriesinLaw,Jurisprudence, and SocialThought explores a theme crucial to anunderstanding of law as it confronts the changingsocial and intellectualcurrents ofthe twenty-firstcentury. Works EditedbyAustinSaratand Thomas R. Kearns The Fate ofLaw Law's Violence LaID in Everyday Life The RhetoricofLaID Identities, Politics, and Rights Legal Rights: Historical and Philosophical Perspectives Justice and Injustice in Lawand Legal Theory Law in the Donlains ofCulture Cultural Pluralism, Identity Politics, and the LaIu History, Memory, and the Law Human Rights: Concepts, Contests, Contingencies Works EditedbyAustinSarat, LawrenceDouglas, and MarthaMerrillUmphrey Lives in the Law History, Memory, and the Law Edited by AUSTIN SARAT and THOMAS R. KEARNS Ann Arbor THE UNIVERSITYOF MICHIGAN PRESS Firstpaperbackedition2002 Copyright©by theUniversityofMichigan1999 All rights reserved PublishedintheUnitedStatesofAmericaby TheUniversityofMichiganPress ManufacturedintheUnitedStatesofAmerica § Printedonacid-freepaper 2005 2004 2003 2002 543 2 Nopartofthispublicationmaybereproduced,storedina retrieval system,ortransmittedinanyformorbyanymeans,electronic, mechanical,orotherwise,withoutthewrittenpermissionofthepublisher. A elFcatalogrecordfor this bookisavailablefrom theBritishLibrary. LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData History, memory, and thelaw / editedbyAustinSaratand ThomasR. Kearns. p. em.- (Amherstseriesinlaw,jurisprudence, andsocial thought) Includesbibliographicalreferencesand index. ISBN0-472-11045-4 (acid-freepaper) 1.Law-UnitedStates-History. 2. Law-Methodology. 3. Law and literature. 1.Sarat,Austin. II. Kearns, ThomasR. III. Series. KF389 .H54 1999 349.73-dc21 99-6462 eIP ISBN0-472-08899-8 (pbk. :alk. paper) ISBN13 978-0-472-11045-2 (cloth : acid-free paper) ISBN13 978-0-472-08899-7 (pbk. : alk. paper) ISBN13 978-0-472-02364-6 (electronic) Acknowledgments We are grateful to our colleagues Lawrence Douglas and Martha Umphrey, both of whom are doing important work on law's history and memory, for theirhelp inshapingtheideas thatinformthisbook. "Law's History" is the subject of a course taught by Professor Umphrey. Wethank ourstudentsin AmherstCollege'sDepartmentof Law, Jurisprudence and Social Thought for their interest in the issues addressed in History, Memory, and the Law. Finally, we would like to express special appreciation to the Keck Foundation for its generous financial support. Contents Writing HistoryandRegisteringMemoryin LegalDecisionsand LegalPractices: AnIntroduction 1 Austin SaratandThomas R. Kearns FormsofJudicialBlindness: TraumaticNarratives andLegalRepetitions 25 Shoshana Felman Memory, Law,andLiterature: TheCasesofFlaubertand Baudelaire 95 DominickLaCapra CollectiveMemoryandtheNineteenthAmendment: Reasoningabout"TheWomanQuestion" inthe DiscourseofSexDiscrimination 131 RevaB. Siegel Heldinthe BodyoftheState: PrisonsandtheLaw 183 Joan Dayan Stigmas,Badges,andBrands: DiscriminatingMarks inLegalHistory 249 BrookThomas AnalogicalReasoningand HistoricalChangeinLaw: TheRegulationofFilmand RadioSpeech 283 G. Ed7vard White Contributors 319 Index 321 Writing History and Registering Memory in Legal Decisions and Legal Practices: An Introduction Austin Sarat and Thomas R. Kearns Therecanbenoonehistoricalnarrativethatrendersperfectjustice (justasperhapsthereisnojudicialoutcomethatcancapturethe complexityofhistory)....[T]hehistorianwouldliketodojustice; thejudgemustestablishsomeversionofhistory....Ifgoodjudges andhistoriansshunthesetasks,theywillbetakenonbyprejudiced ortriumphalistones. CharlesMaier Thestruggleofmanagainstpoweristhestruggleofmemory againstforgetting. MilanKundera Wemustknowtherighttimetoforgetaswellastherighttimeto remember,andinstinctivelyseewhenitisnecessarytofeelhistori callyandwhenunhistorically. FriedrichNietzsche Generally when scholars talk about the relationship between history, memory, and law, the latter is thought of solely as a passive object of historical change.1 Legal history is regarded as the study ofthe forces thathave shaped law. Itisthehistoryofthe evolutionoflawwithlaw 1.LawrenceFriedman,TheHistoryofAmericanLaw(NewYork:SimonandSchus ter,1973),18.Friedmanremarksthat"lawmoveswithitstimesandiseternallynew."
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