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  • Summer Camp Sleuths

    Illustrated by Marianne Constable ...
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    Cooper loves solving puzzles and mysteries but has struggled to make friends. So, he sees summer camp as his chance to make a name for himself. When he uses his detective skills to help other campers, it looks like he might have solved the mystery of how to form new friendships. But are Cooper and his group of Summer Camp Sleuths up for solving the curious case of the disappearing marshmallows? ... Read more

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  • Our Word Is Our Bond

    How Legal Speech Acts

    Series series The Cultural Lives of Law
    Words can be misspoken, misheard, misunderstood, or misappropriated; they can be inappropriate, inaccurate, dangerous, or wrong. When speech goes wrong, law often steps in as itself a speech act or series of speech acts. Our Word Is Our Bond offers a nuanced approach to language and its interaction and relations with modern law. Marianne Constable argues that, as language, modern law makes claims ... Read more

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  • Our Word Is Our Bond

    How Legal Speech Acts

    Series series The Cultural Lives of Law
    Words can be misspoken, misheard, misunderstood, or misappropriated; they can be inappropriate, inaccurate, dangerous, or wrong. When speech goes wrong, law often steps in as itself a speech act or series of speech acts. Our Word Is Our Bond offers a nuanced approach to language and its interaction and relations with modern law. Marianne Constable argues that, as language, modern law makes claims ... Read more

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  • Looking for Law in All the Wrong Places

    Justice Beyond and Between

    Series series Berkeley Forum in the Humanities
    For many inside and outside the legal academy, the right place to look for law is in constitutions, statutes, and judicial opinions. This book looks for law in the “wrong places”—sites and spaces in which no formal law appears. These may be geographic regions beyond the reach of law, everyday practices ungoverned or ungovernable by law, or works of art that have escaped law’s constraints.Looking ... Read more

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  • Just Silences

    The Limits and Possibilities of Modern Law

    Is the Miranda warning, which lets an accused know of the right to remain silent, more about procedural fairness or about the conventions of speech acts and silences? Do U.S. laws about Native Americans violate the preferred or traditional "silence" of the peoples whose religions and languages they aim to "protect" and "preserve"? In Just Silences, Marianne Constable draws on such examples to ... Read more

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