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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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
©2003.
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| Colección: | Cultural lives of law.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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 |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (x, 247 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-240) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781400825561 1400825563 9780691086989 0691086982 9780691086996 0691086990 |