Taking the Home

Law & Literature, Vol. 20, p. 291, 2008

27 Pages Posted: 29 Jan 2009

Date Written: November 1, 2008

Abstract

This essay juxtaposes two Supreme Court cases, Kelo v. City of New London, and Town of Castle Rock v. Gonzales. Both reflect on the meanings of home as simultaneously the source of security against the focal point of anxieties about crossing between the categories of the private and the public. This essay traces the specter of doubleness that haunts the home in the law: the uncanny ways in which the home emerges as the exemplary private institution and the exemplary public concern in our society.

Suggested Citation

Gersen, Jeannie Suk, Taking the Home (November 1, 2008). Law & Literature, Vol. 20, p. 291, 2008, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1334326

Jeannie Suk Gersen (Contact Author)

Harvard Law School ( email )

1575 Massachusetts
Hauser 406
Cambridge, MA 02138
United States

HOME PAGE: http://hls.harvard.edu/faculty/directory/10869/SukGersen

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