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This is the first book to thematically investigate lying in the American legal system.
List of contents
Introduction Austin Sarat; 1. Where the law lies: constitutional fictions and their discontents Mary Anne Franks; 2. The artifice of advocacy: perjury and participation in the American adversary system Norman W. Spaulding; 3. Lies to manipulate, misappropriate, and acquire governmental power Helen Norton; 4. Lies, rape, and statutory rape Stuart P. Green; 5. Law and the production of deceit William N. Eskridge, Jr; Afterword: law, lies, and law schools Montre Carodine.
About the author
Austin Sarat is William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science and Associate Dean of the Faculty at Amherst College and Justice Hugo L. Black Senior Faculty Scholar at the University of Alabama School of Law. He is the author or editor of numerous books, including the recent A World without Privacy (2014), Civility, Legality, and the Limits of Justice (2014) and Re-imagining To Kill a Mockingbird: Family, Community, and the Possibility of Equal Justice under Law (2013). His book, When Government Breaks the Law: Prosecuting the Bush Administration, was named one of the best books of 2010 by The Huffington Post.
Summary
This is the first book to investigate lies and deception in the American legal system. Analyzing examples from undercover police deception to lying under oath and from political lying to the military's 'Don't ask, don't tell' policy, it reveals that the government's stance towards truth is anything but simple.
