Cultural analysis, cultural studies, and the law : moving beyond legal realism / edited by Austin Sarat and Jonathan Simon.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sarat, Austin.

Simon, Jonathan, 1959-

Series:

e-Duke books scholarly collection.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Culture and law.

Sociological jurisprudence.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (377 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This interdisciplinary collection demonstrates the purchase of cultural studies frameworks for thinking about legal questions beyond the reach of the Law & Economics framework.

Contents:

Approaches to the cultural study of law: Law as culture / Naomi Mezey. What it is and what it isn't : cultural studies meets graduate student labor / Toby Miller. Telling a less suspicious story : notes toward a nonskeptical approach to legal/cultural analysis / Paul Schiff Berman. Freedom, autonomy, and the cultural study of law / Paul W. Kahn

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. Rules of law, laws of science / Wai Chee Dimock. Law, therapy, culture / Peter Brooks

Reading legal events: A ghost in the house of justice : death and the language of the law / Shoshana Felman. Lacan and voting rights / Anthony Paul Farley. "Into the blue" : the image written on law / Alison Young.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-282-92074-X

9786612920745

0-8223-8475-2

OCLC:

850217940