Just Silences: The Limits and Possibilities of Modern Law

by Marianne Constable

Book Overview

Is the Miranda warning, which lets an accused know of the right to remain silent, more about procedural fairness or about the conventions of speech acts and silences? Do U.S. laws about Native Americans violate the preferred or traditional "silence" of the peoples whose religions and languages they aim to "protect" and "preserve"? In Just Silences , Marianne Constable draws on such examples to explore what is at stake in modern law: a potentially...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691122784
• ISBN13: 9780691122786
• Release Date: December 2005
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.3"