| The Cultural Study of Law: Reconstructing Legal Scholarship Contributor(s): Kahn, Paul W. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0226422542 ISBN-13: 9780226422541 Publisher: University of Chicago Press OUR PRICE: $98.01 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: May 1999 Annotation: Belief in the rule of law characterizes our society, our political order, and even our identity as citizens. "The Cultural Study of Law" is the first full examination of what it means to conduct a modern intellectual inquiry into the culture of law. Paul Kahn outlines the tools necessary for such an inquiry by analyzing the concepts of time, space, citizen, judge, sovereignty, and theory within the culture of law's rule. Charting the way for the development of a new intellectual discipline, Paul Kahn advocates an approach that stands outside law's normative framework and looks at law as a way of life rather than as a set of rules. "Professor Kahn's perspective is neat and alluring: We need a form of legal scholarship released from the project of reform so that we can better understand who and what we are. The new discipline should study 'not legal rules, but the imagination as it constructs a world of legal meaning.' . . . [C]oncise, good reading, and recommended." --"New York Law Journal" |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Law | Legal Education |
| Dewey: 340.11 |
| LCCN: 98-46423 |
| Physical Information: 0.67" H x 6.24" W x 9.29" (0.80 lbs) 180 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Belief in the rule of law characterizes our society, our political order, and even our identity as citizens. The Cultural Study of Law is the first full examination of what it means to conduct a modern intellectual inquiry into the culture of law. Paul Kahn outlines the tools necessary for such an inquiry by analyzing the concepts of time, space, citizen, judge, sovereignty, and theory within the culture of law's rule. Charting the way for the development of a new intellectual discipline, Paul Kahn advocates an approach that stands outside law's normative framework and looks at law as a way of life rather than as a set of rules. Professor Kahn's perspective is neat and alluring: We need a form of legal scholarship released from the project of reform so that we can better understand who and what we are. The new discipline should study 'not legal rules, but the imagination as it constructs a world of legal meaning.' . . . C]oncise, good reading, and recommended. --New York Law Journal |