Law Multiple - Judgment and Knowledge in Practice

Where, when, and how is the law practiced? An investigation of how truths are made in the legal system.

List of contents

Acknowledgements; List of Figures; Note on the Text; 1. Troubling Encounters; 2. Abstractionism, Revisited; 3. Dealing with Difference: Doing Criminal Law and Social Order; 4. Situating Remorse; 5. Visualizing Cases; 6. Folding Times, Making Truths; 7. Productive Fictions for the Study of the Law: From Hyper-Explanation to Hyper-Object.

Summary

Irene van Oorschot takes the reader on an ethnographic journey through judicial and social-scientific ways of seeing the world, showing how judges and researchers, case files and research methods, theories and narratives become implicated with each other to produce different understandings of the world.

Additional text

'What is the law? In this compelling book Irene van Oorschot does not seek a single, purified answer to that question. Instead, she takes it along with her while exploring diverse juridical practices in diverse ways. This research strategy allows her to show that the law is multiple: an amalgam of contrasting and yet interconnected practices. A distribution machine. A moral knot. Depended on files. Oriented to rules. Generating times. Invested in truth. And what else? Crucially, invitingly, the list is open ended.' Annemarie Mol, Professor Anthropology of the Body, University of Amsterdam

Product details

• Authors: Irene van Oorschot, Irene van Oorschot, Irene (Erasmus Universiteit Rotterda Van Oorschot
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2020
• EAN: 9781108494809
• ISBN: 978-1-108-49480-9
• No. of pages: 250
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Law and S; Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > General, dictionaries; Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, LAW / Legal Profession, Law & society, Legal profession: general, Law and society, sociology of law, Jurisprudence & Philosophy Of Law, Methods, theory and philosophy of law, Legal profession / practice of law: general