Civility, Legality, and Justice in America (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781107063716)

Throughout American history, the discourse of civility has proven quite resilient, and concern for a perceived lack of civility has ebbed and flowed in recognizable patterns. Today we are in another era in which political leaders and commentators bemoan a crisis of incivility and warn of civility's demise. Civility, Legality, and the Limits of Justice charts the uses of civility in American legal and political discourse. How important is civility as a legal and political virtue? How does it fare when it is juxtaposed with the claim that it masks injustice? Who advocates civility and to what effect? How are battles over civility played out in legal and political arenas? This book brings the work of several distinguished scholars together to critically assess the relative claims of civility and justice and the way law weighs those virtues.

Author: Austin Sarat
ISBN-10: 110706371X
ISBN-13: 9781107063716
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 08/11/2014
Pages: 177
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.00w x 0.70d