TY  - GEN
T1  - Law's dream of a common knowledge
T2  - Cultural lives of law.
A1  - Valverde, Mariana, 1955-
LA  - English
PP  - Princeton, N.J.
PB  - Princeton University Press
YR  - 2003
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_ocn367675507
AB  - 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
OP  - 247
CN  - K380 .V35 2003eb
SN  - 9781400825561
SN  - 1400825563
SN  - 9780691086989
SN  - 0691086982
SN  - 9780691086996
SN  - 0691086990
KW  - Law : Social aspects.
KW  - Law : Psychological aspects.
KW  - Knowledge, Sociology of.
KW  - Droit : Aspect social.
KW  - Droit : Psychologie.
KW  - Sociologie de la connaissance.
KW  - Droit : Aspect psychologique.
KW  - sociology of knowledge.
KW  - LAW : Jurisprudence.
KW  - LAW : General Practice.
KW  - LAW : Reference.
KW  - LAW : Essays.
KW  - LAW : Paralegals & Paralegalism.
KW  - LAW : Practical Guides.
KW  - Knowledge, Sociology of
KW  - Law : Psychological aspects
KW  - Law : Social aspects
ER  -