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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... questions and learn a great deal about legal theory, as well as helping me to think about the policy implications of theoretical debates. Alan Hunt, Tom Osborne, and Austin Sarat gave me detailed input on the original book proposal, for ...
... question—include Tony Doob, Peter Goodrich, Kelly Hannah-Moffat, Joe Hermer, Engin Isin, Ron Levi, Dawn Moore, Paula ... questions of justice and injustice that motivate all socio- legal scholarship. Law's Dream of a Common Knowledge ...
... questions and doing new research. I also attempted to explore, however tentatively, other areas of law within which questions about vice and virtue , order and disorder INTRODUCTION 3.
Mariana Valverde. which questions about vice and virtue , order and disorder , are front and center . Thus the study ... question we opened with — law's will to truth - needs to be addressed more directly . LAW'S WILL TO TRUTH Empirical ...
... questions that go beyond pointing the finger at this or that judge or this or that statute , usually take the law of evidence as their object . Their studies usually begin with such questions as whether a particular means of obtaining ...
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