Fame, infamy, and canonicity in American constitutional law / Paul Horwitz -- Index. After law's infamy : judicial self-legitimation in the aftermath of judicial evil / Justin Collings -- 2. "The courts of the conqueror" : colonialism, the Constitution, and the time of redemption / Sherally Munshi -- 3. Supreme Court precedent and the politics of repudiation / Robert L. Tsai -- 4. Law's infamy in the U.S. "War on Terror" / Richard L. Abel -- 5. Law's infamy : Ashker v. Governor of California and the failures of solitary confinement reform / Keramet Reiter -- 6. Fame, infamy, and canonicity in American constitutional law / Paul Horwitz -- Acknowledgments - About the contributors -- About the editors -- Index.
Summary:
"This book takes up the question of whether and how to tell the story of the law's infamy. It examines when and why the word infamy should be used to characterize legal decisions or actions taken in the name of the law. It does so while acknowledging that law's infamy by no means a familiar locution. More commonly the stories we tell of law's failures talk of injustices not infamy. Labelling a legal decision infamous suggests a distinctive kind of injustice, one which is particularly evil or wicked. Doing so means that such a decision cannot be redeemed or reformed; it can only be repudiated"-- Provided by the publisher.
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