Theoretical perspectives on lives in the law : an introduction / Lawrence Douglas, Austin Sarat, and Martha Merrill Umphrey -- Chicago conspiracy trial as a Jewish morality tale / Pnina Lahav -- Law and everyday death : infanticide and the backlash against woman's rights after the Civil War / Sarah Barringer Gordon -- Dependency by law : welfare and identity in the lives of poor women / Frank Munger -- Labor's subjects / Vicki Schultz -- France and trials for crimes against humanity / Annette Wieviorka.