Books by Martha Merrill Umphrey

The essays assembled in How Law Knows provide a sample of the diversity, responsiveness, and influence that law's knowledge practices have on legal outcomes and the world beyond law.

Bringing together the work of scholars in anthropology, law, literary studies, philosophy, and political theory, this book includes essays that show how state and private bureaucracies play crucial roles in fashioning forms of responsibility, which they then enjoin on populations.