Lawyers in a postmodern world : Translation and transgression

By:

Cain Maureen

Contributor(s):

Harrington Christine B

Publication details: New York Newyork University Press 1994Description: 318p xISBN:

9780814715048

Subject(s):

1. Laweyrs2. Practice Of Law3. Sociological Jurisprudence

DDC classification:

340.115000 CAI

Contents:

Contents: List of contributor’s vii; Series editors introduction x; Introduction 1; Maureen Cain and Christine B Harrington; Part 1: Understanding Lawyering 13; 1. The symbol traders / Maureen Cain 15; 2. Outlining a theory of legal practice / Christine B. Harrington 49; Part 2: Constituting capital and the state 71; 3. Legal creativity: law, capital and legal avoidance / Doreen McBarnet 73; 4. Capital fractionalized: the role of insolvency practitioners in asset distribution / Sally Wheeler 85; 5. Blurred boundaries: the overlapping worlds of law, business and politics / David Sugarman 105; 6. Lawyers' work as constitutive of gender relations / Sue Lees 124; 7. The forum should fit the fuss: the economies and politics of negotiated justice / Yves Dezalay 155; Part 3: Towards prefigurative legal practice 183; 8. Miners and lawyers: law practice and class conflict in Appalachia, 1872-1920 / Frank Munger 185; 9. Feminist legal scholarship and women's gendered lives / Martha L.A. Fineman 229; 10. Para-legals and prefiguration: working in black townships towards a post-apartheid South Africa / Wilfried Schärf 247; 11. The contradictions of radical law practice / Stuart Scheingold 265; Bibliography 286; Index 310.

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Item type	Current library	Shelving location	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
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Contents:
List of contributor’s vii;
Series editors introduction x;
Introduction 1;
Maureen Cain and Christine B Harrington;
Part 1: Understanding Lawyering 13;
1. The symbol traders / Maureen Cain 15;
2. Outlining a theory of legal practice / Christine B. Harrington 49;
Part 2: Constituting capital and the state 71;
3. Legal creativity: law, capital and legal avoidance / Doreen McBarnet 73;
4. Capital fractionalized: the role of insolvency practitioners in asset distribution / Sally Wheeler 85;
5. Blurred boundaries: the overlapping worlds of law, business and politics / David Sugarman 105;
6. Lawyers' work as constitutive of gender relations / Sue Lees 124;
7. The forum should fit the fuss: the economies and politics of negotiated justice / Yves Dezalay 155;
Part 3: Towards prefigurative legal practice 183;
8. Miners and lawyers: law practice and class conflict in Appalachia, 1872-1920 / Frank Munger 185;
9. Feminist legal scholarship and women's gendered lives / Martha L.A. Fineman 229;
10. Para-legals and prefiguration: working in black townships towards a post-apartheid South Africa / Wilfried Schärf 247;
11. The contradictions of radical law practice / Stuart Scheingold 265;
Bibliography 286;
Index 310.

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