(Paperback)

The Law Is a White Dog tackles key societal questions: How does the law construct our identities How do its rules and sanctions make or unmake persons And how do the supposedly rational claims of the law define marginal entities

(Paperback)

(Paperback)

Colin Dayan grew up destined to be a southern debutante, but instead became a leading academic with an acerbic and yet emotionally haunted take on her extravagant parents and exotic youth.

(Hardback)

A searing indictment of the American penal system that finds the roots of the recent prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib and Guantnamo in the steady dismantling of the Eighth Amendment's prohibition of "cruel and unusual" punishment.