Thomas J Kearns

Justice and Injustice in Law and Legal Theory

The Fate of Law

Law's Violence

Law in Everyday Life: Austin Sarat and Thomas R. Kearns

The Rhetoric of Law

Legal Rights: Historical and Philosophical Perspective

Identities, Politics, and Rights

Law in the Domains of Culture

Growing Up "White Trash"

A BOOK BY TWO BROTHERS WHO SHARE STORIES FROM THEIR CHILDHOOD, DETAILING WHAT IT WAS LIKE GROWING UP AS THE TWO YOUNGEST BROTHERS IN A FAMILY OF 6 BOYS (NO SISTERS) AND THE FUNNY ADVENTURES THEY GOT INVOLVED IN. THIS WAS THE 70’S & 80’S, THERE WERE NO “CELL PHONES” OR COMPUTERS! MUSIC WAS PLAYED ON ...

Elementary Algebra: Structure and Use

Aimed at students with little or no background in algebra, this introductory text is designed to smooth the transition from arithmetic to algebra by gradually developing algebraic concepts, manipulations, and applications. It offers 6400 graded problems, from routine to more challanging. Its main fe...

Intermediate Algebra: Structure and Use

Intended for an intermediate algebra course offered at both two- and four-year schools. INTERMEDIATE ALGEBRA: STRUCTURE AND USE is for those students who have only had an elementary algebra course or for those students who need a review of intermediate before proceeding further in mathematics. New, ...

Law in the Domains of Culture (The Amherst Series in Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought)

The concept of culture is troublingly vague and, at the same time, hotly contested, and law's relations to culture are as complex, varied and disputed as the concept of culture itself. The concept of the traditional, unified, reified, civilizing idea of culture has come under attack. The growth of c...

Law in Everyday Life (The Amherst Series in Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought)

"Sarat and Kearns . . . have edited a truly marvelous work on the impact of the law on daily life and vice versa. . . . the essays are all exemplary, thought- provoking works worthy of a long, contemplative read by scholars, lawyers, and judges alike." --Choice"The subject of law in everyday life is...

The Life of Thomas Kearns

Miner, Entrepreneur, Politician, Senator, Newspaper Owner, Enigma. . . Thomas Kearns was all these and more. Beginning as a Park City mine worker in 1883, Kearns created the largest mining company in Utah and built a fortune worth millions in less than 20 years. He then used those millions to enter ...

The Rhetoric of Law (The Amherst Series in Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought)

Law is a profession of words. Simultaneously celebratory of great prose and dogmatically insistent on precise usage, law is a stage for verbal virtuosity, linguistic mastery, and persuasive argument. Yet the linguistic display is not without substance: the words of law take on a seriousness virtuall...

History, Memory, and the Law (The Amherst Series in Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought)

The essays in this book examine law as an active participant in the process through which history is written and memory is constructed. Instead of seeing law as a "victim" of history, the writers treat law as an author of history, not just in the instrumental sense in which law can be said to make a...