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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Mariana Valverde. LAW'S DREAM OF A COMMON KNOWLEDGE Mariana Valverde Law's Dream of a Common Knowledge Austin Sarat series editor. THE CULTURAL LIVES OF LAW. Front Cover.
Mariana Valverde. Law's Dream of a Common Knowledge Austin Sarat series editor Law's Dream of a Common Knowledge 9780691086989_1FM.
... Law's dream of a common knowledge / Mariana Valverde. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-691-08698-2 (cloth : alk. paper) 1. Law—Social aspects. 2. Law—Psychology. 3. Knowledge, Sociology of. I. Title. K380 ...
... Law and Society meetings in Budapest, at the Columbia University Law School, and at the University of Toronto Law School; a version of chapter 6 was presented at the American Bar Foundation in Chicago. Comments from people present at ...
... Law and Social Inquiry 26, no. 4(2001). Ongoing conversations and exchanges of papers, ideas, references, and jokes with some wonderful friends made writing this book ... Law's Dream of a Common Knowledge Introduction ✦ If knowledge.
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