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Beschreibung

When citizens think about law's ways of knowing and about how legal officials gather information, assess factual claims, and judge people and situations, they are often confused by the seemingly arcane and constrained quality of the information-gathering, fact-evaluating procedures that legal officials employ or impose. Yet law's ways of knowing as varied as are the institutions and officials who populate any legal system.

From the rules of evidence to the technologies of risk management, from the practices of racial profiling to the development of trade knowledge, from the generation of independent knowledge practices to law's dependence on outside expertise, even a brief survey shows that law knows in many different ways, that its knowledge practices are contingent and responsive to context, and that they change over time.

When citizens think about law's ways of knowing and about how legal officials gather information, assess factual claims, and judge people and situations, they are often confused by the seemingly arcane and constrained quality of the information-gathering, fact-evaluating procedures that legal officials employ or impose. Yet law's ways of knowing as varied as are the institutions and officials who populate any legal system.

From the rules of evidence to the technologies of risk management, from the practices of racial profiling to the development of trade knowledge, from the generation of independent knowledge practices to law's dependence on outside expertise, even a brief survey shows that law knows in many different ways, that its knowledge practices are contingent and responsive to context, and that they change over time.

Über den Autor
Austin Sarat is William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science and Five College Fortieth Anniversary Professor at Amherst College. Lawrence Douglas is Professor of Law, Jurisprudence & Social Thought at Amherst College. Martha Merrill Umphrey is Associate Professor of Law, Jurisprudence & Social Thought at Amherst College.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2006
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Genre: Importe, Recht
Produktart: Nachschlagewerke
Rubrik: Recht & Wirtschaft
Medium: Buch
Reihe: The Amherst Series in Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought
Inhalt: Einband - fest (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9780804755252
ISBN-10: 0804755256
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Umphrey, Martha Merrill
Redaktion: Sarat, Austin
Douglas, Lawrence
Auflage: New
Hersteller: Stanford University Press
The Amherst Series in Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 236 x 161 x 18 mm
Von/Mit: Martha Merrill Umphrey
Erscheinungsdatum: 08.11.2006
Gewicht: 0,422 kg
Artikel-ID: 102162047