Martha Merrill Umphrey

Biographic Data

ID189875
NAMEMartha Merrill Umphrey
GIVEN NAMESMartha Merrill
FAMILY NAMEUmphrey
SIGNATUREUMPHREY M M
AFFILIATIONSAmherst College
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS16
TOTAL CITATIONS15
AUTHOR COUNT8
EDITOR COUNT8
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1999
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2022
H-INDEX1

  • Law and Illiberalism

    Austin Sarat, Lawrence Douglas et al.BOOKLaw and Illiberalism2022

  • Temporal Horizons: On the possibilities of Law and Fatherhood in To Kill a Mockingbird

    Austin Sarat, Martha Merrill UmphreyARTICLECultural Studies2013

    To Kill a Mockingbird is a classic of American cultural–legal studies, and it offers in Atticus Finch an iconic hero who, as Stephen Lubet suggests, is popular culture's most important embodiment of lawyerly virtue. As other scholars have noted, however, To Kill a Mockingbird is not just, or primarily, a law story. Rather, Scout Finch's portrait of Atticus as a father is regarded by many as the key to the text's cultural resonance. Told as a daug…

  • Imagining New Legalities: Privacy and Its Possibilities in the 21st Century

    Austin Sarat, Lawrence Douglas et al.BOOKImagining new legalities2012

  • Imagining New Legalities: Privacy and Its Possibilities in the 21st Century

    Austin Sarat, Lawrence Douglas et al.BOOKImagining new legalities2012

    Imagining New Legalities reminds us that examining the right to privacy and the public/private distinction is an important way of mapping the forms and limits of power that can legitimately be exercised by collective bodies over individuals and by governments over their citizens. This book does not seek to provide a comprehensive overview of threats to privacy and rejoinders to them. Instead it considers several different conceptions of privacy a…

  • Subjects of Responsibility: Framing Personhood in Modern Bureaucracies

    Andrew Parker, Austin Sarat et al.BOOKSubjects of Responsibility2011

    How and why has the concept of responsibility come to pervade the fabric of American public and private life? How are ideas of responsibility instantiated in, and constituted by, the workings of social and political institutions? What place do liberal discourses of responsibility, based on the individual, have in today's biopolitical world, where responsibility is so often a matter of risk assessment, founded in statistical probabilities? Bringin…

  • Law without nations

    Austin Sarat, Lawrence Douglas et al.BOOKLaw without nations2011

    'Law without nations' examines the ways in which the growing internationalization of law affects domestic national law, the relationship between cosmopolitan legal ideas and understandings of national identity, and the intersections of identity and law based on the liberal tradition of jurisprudence.

  • Law and the Stranger

    Open AccessAustin Sarat, Lawrence Douglas et al.BOOKLaw and the Stranger2010

  • Law without Nations

    Austin Sarat, Lawrence Douglas et al.BOOKLaw Without Nations2010

  • Law and the Stranger

    Open AccessAustin Sarat, Lawrence Douglas et al.BOOKLaw and the stranger2010

    Law calls communities into being and constitutes the we it governs. This act of defining produces an outside as well as an inside, a border whose crossing is guarded, maintaining the identity, coherence, and integrity of the space and people within. Those wishing to enter must negotiate a complex terrain of defensive mechanisms, expectations, assumptions, and legal proscriptions. Essentially, law enforces the boundary between inside and outside i…

  • The Justice of Jurisdiction: The Policing and Breaching of Boundaries in Orson Welles's Touch of Evil

    Austin Sarat, Martha Merrill UmphreyARTICLEEnglish Language Notes2010

    Research Article| September 01 2010 The Justice of Jurisdiction: The Policing and Breaching of Boundaries in Orson Welles's Touch of Evil Austin Sarat; Austin Sarat Amherst College [email protected] Austin Sarat is William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science at Amherst College and Justice Hugo L. Black Visiting Senior Scholar at the School of Law, University of Alabama. He is the author or editor of more than 70 boo…

  • Law's Bonds: Eros and Identification in Billy Budd

    Martha Merrill UmphreyARTICLEAmerican imago2007

    This essay offers an interpretation of Herman Melville's novella, Billy Budd, Sailor (an inside narrative), that contests and supplements canonical accounts in legal theory emphasizing the relation between law and violence. Melville's narrative illustrates the ways in which subjects are bound even to an unjust law not only by fear but also by love. The judgment against and execution of Billy Budd, a signal enactment of legal violence, require the…

  • From the Review Editor

    Open AccessMartha Merrill UmphreyARTICLELaw & Society Review2004

  • Forum

    Open AccessMartha Merrill UmphreyARTICLELaw & Society Review2004

  • Fragile Performances: The Dialogics of Judgment in A Theory of the Trial

    Open AccessMartha Merrill UmphreyARTICLELaw & Social Inquiry2003References: 2

  • Fragile Performances: The Dialogics of Judgment in A Theory of the Trial

    Open AccessMartha Merrill UmphreyARTICLELaw & Social Inquiry2003

  • The Dialogics of Legal Meaning: Spectacular Trials, the Unwritten Law, and Narratives of Criminal Responsibility

    Open AccessMartha Merrill UmphreyARTICLELaw & Society Review1999Cited by: 15References: 12

    Drawing upon Mikhail Bakhtin's theory of the dialogic, this essay explores the production of legal meanings about criminal responsibility in the 19th and early 20th centuries. In particular, it examines the honor-based defense of the "unwritten law" as it was articulated in relation to the formal law of provocation in the 19th century, and in the 1906 trial of Harry K. Thaw for the murder of Stanford White. Meanings about criminal responsibility …