Law's Dream of a Common Knowledge /

Law's Dream of a Common Knowledge / / Mariana Valverde.

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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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Valverde, Mariana,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2009]
©2003
Year of Publication:2009
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
Series:The Cultural Lives of Law
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Physical Description:1 online resource (264 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • CHAPTER ONE. Introduction
  • CHAPTER TWO. The Art of Drawing the Line: Judicial Knowledges of Community Morality and Community Harms
  • CHAPTER THREE. The Forensic Gaze: Law's Search for Moral Clues
  • CHAPTER FOUR. Beyond Sexuality?
  • CHAPTER FIVE. "The Lifestyle That Fits the Doctrine of Sexual Orientation"
  • CHAPTER SIX. Police Science, British Style: Pub Licensing and Knowledges of Urban Disorder
  • CHAPTER SEVEN. "Common Knowledge Must Enter the Equation Somewhere": Knowledge as Responsibility
  • CHAPTER EIGHT. Racial Masquerades: White Inquiries into "the Indian Style of Life"
  • CHAPTER NINE. Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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