The Making of Law: An Ethnography of the Conseil d'Etat Paperback - 2010 - 1st Edition
by Latour, Bruno
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- Title The Making of Law: An Ethnography of the Conseil d'Etat
- Author Latour, Bruno
- Binding Paperback
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 280
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Polity Press, Cambridge, UK
- Date 2010-01-01
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Glossary, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # 0745639852.G
- ISBN 9780745639857 / 0745639852
- Weight 1 lbs (0.45 kg)
- Dimensions 8.9 x 5.9 x 1 in (22.61 x 14.99 x 2.54 cm)
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Themes
- Cultural Region: French
- Interdisciplinary Studies: Law Studies
- Library of Congress subjects Administrative law - France, France - Rules and practice
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2010286711
- Dewey Decimal Code 342.440
From the rear cover
What makes this study an important contribution to the social studies of law is that, because of an unprecedented access to the collective discussions of judges, Latour has been able to reconstruct in details the weaving of legal reasoning: it is clearly not the social that explains the law, but the legal ties that alter what it is to be associated together. It is thus a major contribution to Latour's social theory since it is now possible to compare the ways legal ties build up associations with the other types of connections that he has studied in other fields of acticity. His project of an alternative interpretation of the very notion of society has never been made clearer than in this work. To reuse the title of his first book, this book is in effect the Laboratory Life of Law.
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- Chronicle of Higher Education, 01/15/2010, Page 21