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LAW ON THE SCREEN

Amherst Series in Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought

EDITED BY

Austin Sarat, Lawrence Douglas, and Martha Merrill Umphrey

Law on the Screen

Edited by

AUSTIN SARAT

LAWRENCE DOUGLAS

MARTHA MERRILL UMPHREY

STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

Stanford, California, 2005

Stanford University Press

Stanford, California

Leland Stanford Junior University

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Law on the screen / Edited by Austin Sarat, Lawrence Douglas, Martha Merrill

Umphrey.

p. cm. — (Amherst series in law, jurisprudence, and social thought)

Essays originally presented at a conference entitled Law’s Moving Image,

held April 11–12, 2003, at Amherst College.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 0-8047-5162-5 (alk. paper)

1. Justice, Administration of, in motion pictures—Congresses. I. Sarat,

Austin. II. Douglas, Lawrence. III. Umphrey, Martha Merrill. IV. Series.

PN1995.9.J8L39 2005

791.43'6554—dc22

2004022528

This book is printed on acid-free, archival-quality paper

Original printing 2005

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