| Description |
1 online resource (x, 247 pages). |
| Series |
Cultural lives of law |
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Cultural lives of law.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-240) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- The art of drawing the line : judicial knowledges of community morality and community harms -- The forensic gaze : law's search for moral clues -- Beyond sexuality? -- "The lifestyle that fits the doctrine of sexual orientation" -- Police science, British style : pub licensing and knowledges of urban disorder -- "Common knowledge must enter the equation somewhere" : knowledge as responsibility -- Racial masquerades : white inquiries into "the Indian style of life." |
| Summary |
If knowledge is power, then the power of law can be studied through the lens of knowledge. This book opens up a substantive new area of legal research--knowledge production--and presents a series of case studies showing that the hybridity and eclecticism of legal knowledge processes make it unfruitful to ask questions such as, "Is law becoming more dominated by science?" Mariana Valverde argues that legal decision making cannot be understood if one counterposes science and technology, on the one hand, to common knowledge and common sense on the other. The case studies of law's flexible collage. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Local Note |
EBSCOhost SocINDEX with Full Text |
| Subject |
Law -- Social aspects.
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Law -- Psychological aspects.
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Knowledge, Sociology of.
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LAW -- Jurisprudence.
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LAW -- General Practice.
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LAW -- Reference.
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LAW -- Essays.
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LAW -- Paralegals & Paralegalism.
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LAW -- Practical Guides.
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Knowledge, Sociology of. (OCoLC)fst00988190
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Law -- Psychological aspects.
(OCoLC)fst00993801
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Law -- Social aspects.
(OCoLC)fst00993813
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Law, Politics & Government.
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Law, General & Comparative.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Valverde, Mariana, 1955- Law's dream of a common knowledge. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2003 0691086982 9780691086989 (DLC) 2002030720 (OCoLC)50334075 |
| ISBN |
9781400825561 (electronic book) |
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1400825563 (electronic book) |
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0691086982 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0691086990 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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9780691086989 |
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0691086982 |
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9780691086996 |
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0691086990 |
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