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Book Announcement: The Law Is a White Dog by Dayan

By Lawrence Solum

The Law Is a White Dog
How Legal Rituals Make and Unmake Persons
Colin Dayan
 

To read the entire book description or a sample chapter, please visit: http://press.princeton.edu/titles/9450.html

Abused dogs, prisoners tortured in Guantánamo and supermax facilities, or slaves killed by the state--all are deprived of personhood through legal acts. Such deprivations have recurred throughout history, and the law sustains these terrors and banishments even as it upholds the civil order. Reading the language, allusions, and symbols of legal discourse, and bridging distinctions between the human and nonhuman, Colin Dayan looks at how the law disfigures individuals and animals, and how slavery, punishment, and torture create unforeseen effects in our daily lives.

Cloth | $29.95 / £20.95 | ISBN: 978-0-691-07091-9
e-Book | $29.95 | ISBN: 978-1-4008-3859-2

Full post as published by Legal Theory Blog on March 08, 2011 (boomark / email).