Acknowledgments... ix
The Legal Treatment of Mistakes: An Introduction... 1Austin Sarat, Lawrence Douglas, and Martha Umphrey
1.Mistaken Judgments... 18Stewart Motha
2. How Law Should Avoid Mistakes: Alexander Bickel's Modernist Jurisprudence of "Mood"... 44Kunal M. Parker
3. "Mistake" in American Criminal Law... 68Jordan M. Steiker
4. The Ghosts in the "Machinery of Death": The Rhetoric of Mistake in Lethal Injection Reform... 83Jody Lyneé Madeira
5. Mistaken for Consensus: Hung Juries, the Allen Charge, and the End of Jury Deliberation... 129Sonali Chakravarti
6. Law's Mistakes, Legal Pluralism, and the Significance of Systemic Justice... 153Paul Schiff Berman
About the Contributors... 169Index... 171