Description
Book SynopsisPresents a field-defining collection of work at the intersection of law, cultural analysis and cultural studies. This book demonstrates the purchase of cultural studies frameworks for thinking about legal questions beyond the reach of the law and economics framework.
Trade Review“Expansive and thought-provoking,
Cultural Analysis, Cultural Studies, and the Law captures the variety and richness of cultural approaches to the study of law and culture without sacrificing coherence or rigor.”—Patricia Ewick, coauthor of
The Common Place of Law: Stories from Everyday Life”Cultural Analysis, Cultural Studies, and the Law pulls together a fascinating set of essays that demonstrate the breadth and possibilities of this new field along with an introduction that lays out the field’s terrain and describes something of its origins and possibilities. The intellectual movement is already under way; this book provides a focus for it."—Sally Engle Merry, author of
Colonizing Hawai’i: The Cultural Power of LawTable of ContentsCultural Analysis, Cultural Studies, and the Situation of Legal Scholarship / Austin Sarat and Jonathan Simon 1
I. Approaches to the Cultural Study of Law
Law as Culture / Naomi Mezey 37
What It Is and What It Isn't: Cultural Studies Meets Graduate Student Labor / Toby Miller 73
Telling a Less Suspicious Story: Notes toward a Nonskeptical Approach to Legal/Cultural Analysis / Paul Schiff Berman 105
Freedom, Autonomy, and the Cultural Studies of Law / Paul W. Kahn 154
II. Deploying Law and Legal Ideas in Culture and Society
Ethnography and Democracy: Texts and Contexts in the United States in the 1990s / Carol J. Greenhouse 191
Rules of Law, Laws of Science / Wai Chee Dimock 220
Law, Therapy, Culture / Peter Brooks 245
III. Reading Legal Events
A Ghost in the House of Justice: Death and the Language of the Law / Shoshana Felman 259
Lacan and Voting Rights / Anthony Paul Farley 304
“Into the Blue": The Image Written on Law / Alison Young 327
Contributors 353
Index 355
