Abstract
This book addresses whether and how to tell the story of the law’s infamy. Who tells that story? And for what purpose? Is it a consoling story of progress and redemption, or a piercing story of law covering the tracks of its complicity with evil? Law’s Infamy examines when and why the word “infamy” should be used to characterize legal decisions or actions taken in the name of the law. It does so while acknowledging that law’s infamy is by no means a familiar locution. More commonly, the stories we tell of law’s failures talk of injustices not infamy. Labelling a legal decision “infamous” suggests a distinctive kind of injustice, one that is particularly evil or wicked. Doing so means that such a decision cannot be redeemed or reformed; it can only be repudiated.
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