Law's Dream of a Common KnowledgeIf 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 of knowledges range from determinations of drunkenness made by liquor licensing inspectors and by police, through police testimony in "indecency" cases, to how judges define the "truth" of sexuality and the harm that obscenity poses to communities. |
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... American Bar Foundation in Chicago. Comments from people present at those talks were extremely helpful. Some parts of chapter 2 appeared in a different form in “The harms of sex and the risks of breasts” (So- cial and Legal Studies 8 ...
... American culture-wars discourse would call “relativists.” Unlike postmodern phi- losophers, both Foucault and Latour have nothing but respect for the centuries-old European effort to find out how things work. And they have particular ...
... American liberation theology puts it) has, in recent years, been elevated to that status of grand epistemology by left-wing academics—standpoint feminists and some critical race theorists—who believe that the only problem with the ...
... America have come to use the liberal legal fiction of sexual orientation as a name for an inner psychic truth that is experienced as pre-legal. This is just one example showing that law can and does change how people think of themselves ...
... American pragmatism , on the other , I have come to the conclusion that it is important to resist the will to ask the grand questions - " why " questions and " what " questions . In asking such questions theorists have neglected the ...
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