Tag: Law

The administration of “illegality”

“Illegal” immigrants are universally demonized, but it is exclusionary immigration laws that produce “illegality.”

Our Images, Our Selves

“Public image laws” in the U.S. belie an image-obsessed cultural sensibility.

Art Law Pioneer: John Henry Merryman

Stanford University Press remembers a path-breaking legal scholar.

LSA Confidential

On the joys of publishing law and society books—plus a few editorial secrets.

The Mother of Invention

Do the pecuniary gains of intellectual property motivate innovation?

Human Rights: A Fragile Hegemony

Human rights, as popularly conceived, have a troubling genealogy. By Boaventura de Sousa Santos

Religious Freedom in the Commercial Sphere

Are people organized as corporations entitled to constitutional rights? by ILYA SOMIN Hobby Lobby Store in Ohio. Creative Commons image via Wikimedia Commons. The Supreme Court’s recent decision in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby addressed a seemingly narrow issue: whether the Obamacare regulation requiring corporate employers 

Your Rugged Preamble

The nation’s founding document, as imagined by the midcentury American imagination. In 1952, Stanford University Press published a guide for young American readers to aid them in their understanding of the United States Constitution. Now in reissue over 60 years later, the book not only