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Looking for Law in All the Wrong Places - Justice Beyond and Between (Hardcover)
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Looking for Law in All the Wrong Places - Justice Beyond and Between (Hardcover)
Series: Berkeley Forum in the Humanities
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For many inside and outside the legal academy, the right place to
look for law is in constitutions, statutes, and judicial opinions.
This book looks for law in the "wrong places"-sites and spaces in
which no formal law appears. These may be geographic regions beyond
the reach of law, everyday practices ungoverned or ungovernable by
law, or works of art that have escaped law's constraints. Looking
for Law in All the Wrong Places brings together essays by leading
scholars of anthropology, cultural studies, history, law,
literature, political science, race and ethnic studies, religion,
and rhetoric, to look at law from the standpoint of the humanities.
Beyond showing law to be determined by or determinative of distinct
cultural phenomena, the contributors show how law is itself
interwoven with language, text, image, and culture. Many essays in
this volume look for law precisely in the kinds of "wrong places"
where there appears to be no law. They find in these places not
only reflections and remains of law, but also rules and practices
that seem indistinguishable from law and raise challenging
questions about the locations of law and about law's meaning and
function. Other essays do the opposite: rather than looking for law
in places where law does not obviously appear, they look in statute
books and courtrooms from perspectives that are usually presumed to
have nothing to say about law. Looking at law sideways, or upside
down, or inside out defamiliarizes law. These essays show what
legal understanding can gain when law is denied its ostensibly
proper domain. Contributors: Kathryn Abrams, Daniel Boyarin, Wendy
Brown, Marianne Constable, Samera Esmeir, Daniel Fisher, Sara
Ludin, Saba Mahmood, Rebecca McLennan, Ramona Naddaff, Beth
Piatote, Sarah Song, Christopher Tomlins, Leti Volpp, Bryan Wagner
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