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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... individuals , institutions such as legislatures , law schools , and courts , professional associations , and extralegally produced texts such as psychological reports , police notes , and scene - of - crime photographs . To say that law ...
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... individuals who are criminally charged or who are making a claim of specific discrimina- tion , the individual is usually defined in terms of either acts or deep identities or both . But in situations in which communities are at issue ...
... individual , bad habits , whether caused by a weakness of the will or by lack of training , always have a bodily ... individuals whose affiliation is ambiguous or invisible , habits become an all impor- tant source of information for ...
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