Bernadette Meyler

Theaters of Pardoning

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Produktbeschreibung

From Gerald Ford's preemptive pardon of Richard Nixon and Donald Trump's claims that as president he could pardon himself to the posthumous royal pardon of Alan Turing, the power of the pardon has a powerful hold on the political and cultural imagination. In Theaters of Pardoning, Bernadette Meyler traces the roots of contemporary...

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Produktdetails

• Corpus Juris: the Humanities in Politics and Law
• Verlag: Cornell University Press
• Seitenzahl: 324
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. September 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 152mm x 227mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 484g
• ISBN-13: 9781501739347
• ISBN-10: 1501739344
• Artikelnr.: 55894159

Autorenporträt

Bernadette Meyler is Carl and Sheila Spaeth Professor of Law and Associate Dean for Curriculum and Professor (by courtesy) of English at Stanford University. She is the co-editor of New Directions in Law and Literature and The Oxford Handbook of Law and Humanities. Follow her on X @MeylerBernie.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Theaters of Pardoning
1. Dramatic Judgments: Measure for Measure, Revenge, and the Institution of
the Law
2. Emplotting Politics: James I and the "Powder Treason"
3. Non-Sovereign Forgiveness: Mercy among Equals in The Laws of Candy
4. From Sovereignty to the State: The Tragicomic Clemency of Massinger's
The Bondman
5. Between Royal Pardons and Acts of Oblivion: The Transitional Justice of
Cosmo Manuche and James Compton, Earl of Northampton
6. Pardoning Revolution: The 1660 Act of Oblivion and Hobbes's Recentering
of Sovereignty
Postlude: Pardoning and Liberal Constitutionalism
Appendix A
Appendix B
Bibliography
Index