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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... commonsense theorizing , metaphysics as well as astrology , for many centuries now , Nietzsche's main advice on method - which I think Foucault followed- was to caution us against ascribing the deeds and events studied by the human ...
... common- sense , " it is nevertheless a separate category in the sociology of legal knowledges , since certain administrators are empowered to give opin- ions that are not expert opinions in the legal sense but that override the ...
... commonsense , job - based knowl- edge , and ( very occasional ) borrowed bits of science . Creative hybridity ( Moore and Valverde 2000 ) is the name of the knowledge game , in regulatory and administrative arenas as well as in certain ...
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