Lawrence Douglas

Lawrence R. Douglas is an American law scholar and Professor of Law, Jurisprudence and Social Thought at Amherst College .

Life

He completed his education at Brown University , Columbia University and Yale Law School . He has been teaching at Amherst College since 2005. He is a member of the board of directors of the Iranian Human Rights Documentation Center .

The main focus of his scientific work is the didactic effect of trials against war criminals. Douglas has published numerous articles on this and gave presentations at congresses and conferences such as B. on the importance of the Nuremberg Trials. Douglas also wrote humorous literature with his colleague Alexander George.

Works

Non-fiction

• The Memory of Judgment , 2001, ISBN 978-0-300-10984-9

together with Austin Sarat and Martha Umphrey:

• Lives in the Law , University of Michigan Press, 2002
• The Place of Law , University of Michigan Press, 2003
• Law's Madness , University of Michigan Press, 2003
• Law on the Screen , Stanford University Press, 2005
• The Limits of Law , Stanford University Press, 2005
• How Law Knows , Stanford University Press, 2006
• Law and the Sacred , Stanford University Press, 2006

Fiction

• The Catastrophist , 2006, ISBN 978-0-15-603177-6

Web links

• Lawrence Douglas on the Amherst College website