Law's dream of a common knowledge
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 unfruitf...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press
c2003.
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| Edition: | Course Book |
| Series: | Cultural lives of law.
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| See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009798344606719 |
Table of 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."
