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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... knowl- edge relations, truth relations. While theology has often served as a public arena for the playing out of disputes about how and where to seek the truth, in the present day, and particularly in largely secular multicultural ...
... knowl- edge ought to be deployed . This is a fundamental inquiry for legal scholars : as far back as the Enlightenment's critique of heresy trials , legal thought and law reform have been centrally concerned with the close connection ...
... knowl- edges and devise techniques for managing, classifying, and governing ourselves and our problems. For those of us who, like Nietzsche, have no trouble accepting that every human knowledge project including our own is necessarily ...
... knowl- edge documented in this book are considered together. For example, neither the “common knowledge” demanded of waitresses and drivers (chapter 7) nor the administrative knowledges of vice and disorder doc- umented throughout the ...
... 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 processes within criminal ...
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