Guns in Law
“This edited volume makes a significant contribution to at least a couple of different scholarly literatures [including] recent originalist assumptions informing Second Amendment jurisprudence.”―William D. Rose, professor and chair of the Political Science Department at Albion College
“This collection of new research from leading scholars in the fields of history, sociology, public policy, and law offers no easy solutions but recognizes that the future of gun regulation in America will be as fraught as its past.”―Nathan Kozuskanich, coeditor of The Second Amendment on Trial: Critical Essays on District of Columbia v. Heller
“A collection of six essays by a diverse group of authors, Guns in Law . . . will be of interest not just to those studying Second Amendment law, but also to historians, political scientists, and sociologists seeking to explore the dynamic intersection of guns and the law.”―CHOICE
University of Massachusetts Press 2019
Lawrence Douglas
The Right Wrong Man: John Demjanjuk and the Last Great Nazi War Crimes Trial
New York Times Book Review, Editors’ Choice
“[A] masterful account of Demjanuk’s long, very strange case….deftly delivers disquisitions on nuanced legal questions as if they were plot points in a thriller...” Wall Street Journal
“…extraordinarily impressive,” Christopher Browning, Times Literary Supplement
“’The Right Wrong Man,’ from its summary title to its thoughtful postscript, is an impressive work, as well as a timely one in its demonstration of the power of legal systems to learn from past missteps.” Anthony Julius, New York Times Book Review
“Sophisticated and suspenseful, the book provides a trenchant analysis of the legal and moral dilemmas surrounding trials for genocidal crimes against humanity.” Jerusalem Post
“…a superb book,” Trouw (Netherlands)
“[Douglas] deftly weaves the ongoing battle of Demjanjuk’s with the evidentiary trail being followed by the sleuths in the US Justice Department and elsewhere….The Right Wrong Man is an important read about the accountability those who do wrong ultimately face.” San Francisco Book Review
“…Lawrence Douglas’s immensely readable book absorbs the reader in the twists and turns of the Demjanjuk saga, helping us understand both why justice required prosecuting Demjanjuk for his “egregious moral complicity,” and how the job got done.” Commonweal
“For Douglas, this last great Holocaust trial…enshrined a new form of memory, one which preserves the moral strength of survivors’ stories long after they are gone.” The New Republic
“…behind this story lies a fraught web of issues that Douglas untangles with exceptional skill…. a tour de force…” Foreign Affairs
Princeton University Press 2018
Law and Mourning
“These essays lead the reader progressively deeper into the relationship between law and mourning, considering last testaments that restrict a beneficiary's marriage, sperm preservation, public rituals of mourning (and their suppression), melancholic judges, and the lamentations of scholars who mourn the loss of justice itself.”―Linda Ross Meyer, author of The Justice of Mercy
“This volume demonstrates how varied and extensive the conjunction of mourning and law is, and it also makes a powerful case for how this intersection needs to be examined through an interdisciplinary lens. The contributors, all impressive and productive scholars, come from a broad range of fields, speaking across methodological and scholarly divides and opening avenues for further inquiry by inviting scholars to think creatively and ambitiously about our critical practices.”―Ravit Reichman, author of The Affective Life of Law: Legal Modernism and the Literary Imagination
University of Massachusetts Press 2018
Law and Performance
“Here is a pathbreaking law book that picks up on the emerging interest in affect theory, sensory studies (including forays in synesthesia studies) in conjunction with the cultural and political implications of law in action. It invites novel modes of analysis, and in the process brings into view previously unobserved phenomena pertaining to law, the perception of law, and law's efficacy and legitimation.”―Richard K. Sherwin, author of When Law Goes Pop: The Vanishing Line between Law and Popular Culture
“This collection is a must read for scholars of performance studies as well as legal studies researchers and practitioners.”―CHOICE
University of Massachusetts Press 2018
Criminals and Enemies
“A bold new collection of essays that weaves together political philosophy, legal analysis, and historical research.”―Laura A. Dickinson, author of Outsourcing War and Peace: Preserving Public Values in a World of Privatized Foreign Affairs
University of Massachusetts Press 2018