Why do some people take a neighbor to court over a barking dog or
some other nuisance while others accept the pains and losses
associated with defective products or discrimination without
seeking legal recourse? Patricia Ewick and Susan S. Silbey
collected accounts of the law from more than four hundred people of
diverse backgrounds in order to explore the different ways that
people use and experience it. Their fascinating and original study
identifies three narratives of law common to the stories people
tell. One is based on the perception that the law is magisterial
and remote. Another views the law as a game with rules that can be
manipulated to one's advantage. A third describes the law as an
arbitrary power that can be actively resisted. Drawing on these
extensive case studies, Ewick and Silbey interweave individual
experiences with an analysis that constructs a coherent and
compelling theory of legality. A groundbreaking study of law and
narrative, The Common Place of Law shows an institution as it is
lived: strange and familiar, imperfect and ordinary, and at the
center of daily life.
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