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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... expert advice on particular chapters. I did not always take their advice, but their gener- osity allowed me to make incursions into new fields. My heartfelt thanks in this regard to Connie Backhouse, Karen Busby, David Gar- land, Janet ...
... expert knowledges. This is more than an empirical point. This book suggests not only that expert domination is limited but also, more fundamentally, that it would be more useful for socio-legal scholars to abandon the undirectional ...
... expert discourses on identities , and this binary opposition is reproduced in the studies of law in action . Having concluded , in earlier work on drinking , that a great many activities and situations with ethi- cal implications are ...
... expert scientific knowledges are almost never determinative . THE " ANALYTICAL MIND " OR FORENSIC GAZE Socio - legal scholarship on police work has tended to emphasize the growing importance of scientific and technical facts , and ...
... expert opinions in the legal sense but that override the testimony of customers or passersby . An interest in hybrid , in - between knowledges deployed in regulatory and administrative law leads inevitably to research sites located in ...
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