The Cultural Study of Law

by Kahn, Paul W.

• ISBN13: 9780226422541
• ISBN10: 0226422542
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-05-15
• Publisher: Univ of Chicago Pr

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
Introduction Theory and Practice	1	(6)
The State of the Discipline	7	(24)
Imagining the Rule of Law	31	(60)
Methodological Rules	91	(37)
Conclusion Scholarship and Law's Power	128	(13)
Notes	141	(18)
Index	159