Austin Sarat / Jonathan Simon

Cultural Analysis, Cultural Studies, and the Law

Moving Beyond Legal Realism
Herausgeber: Sarat, Austin D; Simon, Jonathan

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

""Cultural Analysis, Cultural Studies, and the Law" pulls together a fascinating set of essays that demonstrate the breadth and possibilities of this new field along with an introduction that lays out the field's terrain and describes something of its origins and possibilities. The intellectual movement is already under way; this book provides a focus for it."--Sally Engle Merry, author of "Colonizing Hawai'i: The Cultural Power of Law"

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 376
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Juli 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 153mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 522g
• ISBN-13: 9780822331438
• ISBN-10: 0822331438
• Artikelnr.: 21668176

Autorenporträt

Austin Sarat and Jonathan Simon, eds.

Inhaltsangabe

Cultural Analysis, Cultural Studies, and the Situation of Legal Scholarship
/ Austin Sarat and Jonathan Simon 1
I. Approaches to the Cultural Study of Law
Law as Culture / Naomi Mezey 37
What It Is and What It Isn't: Cultural Studies Meets Graduate Student Labor
/ Toby Miller 73
Telling a Less Suspicious Story: Notes toward a Nonskeptical Approach to
Legal/Cultural Analysis / Paul Schiff Berman 105
Freedom, Autonomy, and the Cultural Studies of Law / Paul W. Kahn 154
II. Deploying Law and Legal Ideas in Culture and Society
Ethnography and Democracy: Texts and Contexts in the United States in the
1990s / Carol J. Greenhouse 191
Rules of Law, Laws of Science / Wai Chee Dimock 220
Law, Therapy, Culture / Peter Brooks 245
III. Reading Legal Events
A Ghost in the House of Justice: Death and the Language of the Law /
Shoshana Felman 259
Lacan and Voting Rights / Anthony Paul Farley 304
“Into the Blue": The Image Written on Law / Alison Young 327
Contributors 353
Index 355