| The Law of the Other: The Mixed Jury and Changing Conceptions of Citizenship, Law, and Knowledge Contributor(s): Constable, Marianne (Author) |
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ISBN: 0226114961 ISBN-13: 9780226114965 Publisher: University of Chicago Press OUR PRICE: $98.01 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: February 1994 Annotation: "The Law of the Other" is an account of the English doctrine of the "mixed jury." Constable's excavation of the historical, rhetorical, and theoretical foundations of modern law recasts our legal and sociological understandings of the American jury and our contemporary conceptions of law, citizenship, and truth. The "mixed jury" doctrine allowed resident foreigners to have law suits against English natives tried before juries composed half of natives and half of aliens like themselves. As she traces the transformations in this doctrine from the Middle Ages to its abolition in 1870, Constable also reveals the emergence of a world where law rooted in actual practices and customs of communities is replaced by law determined by officials, where juries no longer strive to speak the truth but to ascertain the facts. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Law | Civil Law - Law | Civil Procedure |
| Dewey: 347.420 |
| LCCN: 93028838 |
| Series: New Practices of Inquiry |
| Physical Information: 0.65" H x 6.28" W x 9.3" (1.00 lbs) 208 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
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| Publisher Description: The Law of the Other is an account of the English doctrine of the mixed jury. Constable's excavation of the historical, rhetorical, and theoretical foundations of modern law recasts our legal and sociological understandings of the American jury and our contemporary conceptions of law, citizenship, and truth. The mixed jury doctrine allowed resident foreigners to have law suits against English natives tried before juries composed half of natives and half of aliens like themselves. As she traces the transformations in this doctrine from the Middle Ages to its abolition in 1870, Constable also reveals the emergence of a world where law rooted in actual practices and customs of communities is replaced by law determined by officials, where juries no longer strive to speak the truth but to ascertain the facts. |