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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主要作者: Valverde, Mariana, 1955- (Author)
格式: Licensed eBooks
語言:英语
出版: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press ©2003.
叢編:Cultural lives of law.
在線閱讀:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt7srhw
書本目錄:
  • 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."