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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... critical legal studies and socio-legal schol- arship as a key site for the reproduction and contestation of various forms of power relations. But if power works through knowledge,1 it should prove useful to undertake an examination of some ...
... Critical scholars - sociologists , legal anthro- pologists , and others — have challenged law's official will to truth by empirically studying the sordid and careless realities of everyday “ jus- tice . " Their work has been extremely ...
... legal studies and sociology of law. That framework demonstrated its power in enabling a whole generation of critical legal studies, feminist legal analysis, queer legal scholarship, and critical race theory. But like all frameworks, it ...
... critical legal theory in recent years , as I , too , have argued in occasional philosophical excursions ( Valverde 1999b , 1999c ) . But in a book in which the proliferation of diverse modes of knowledge within legal ... studies , in the ...
... critical scholars who have inquired into effects rather than interests ... legal studies work , was very helpful in exposing liberal neutrality , but ... law ) tend to be driven by the desire that Nietzsche diag- nosed when he pointed out ...
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