Law's Dream of a Common Knowledge
If 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 …
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If 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 co.
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- Publication Date:2009.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Princeton University Press
- Place of Publication:Princeton
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2009.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (259 pages).
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:0691086982, 9780691086989, 9781400825561, 1400825563
- oclc:ocn995203948
- LC Classification:K380 \.V35
- Dewey Decimal:340.11
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments; CHAPTER ONE: Introduction; CHAPTER TWO: The Art of Drawing the Line: Judicial Knowledges of Community Morality and Community Harms; CHAPTER THREE: Forensic Gaze: Law's Search for Moral Clues; CHAPTER FOUR: Beyond Sexuality?; CHAPTER FIVE: "The Lifestyle That Fits the Doctrine of Sexual Orientation"; CHAPTER SIX: Police Science, British Style: Pub Licensing and Knowledges of Urban Disorder; CHAPTER SEVEN: "Common Knowledge Must Enter the Equation Somewhere": Knowledge as Responsibility.
CHAPTER EIGHT: Racial Masquerades: White Inquiries into "the Indian Style of Life"CHAPTER NINE: Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.
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