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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Valverde, Mariana, 1955- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2003.
Series:Cultural lives of law.
Subjects:
Law > Social aspects.
Law > Psychological aspects.
Knowledge, Sociology of.
Droit > Aspect social.
Droit > Psychologie.
Sociologie de la connaissance.
Droit > Aspect psychologique.
sociology of knowledge.
LAW > Jurisprudence.
LAW > General Practice.
LAW > Reference.
LAW > Essays.
LAW > Paralegals & Paralegalism.
LAW > Practical Guides.
Online Access:Texto completo
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."

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