Toward a new legal common sense : law, globalization, and emancipation

By:

Santos Boaventura de Sousa

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Publication details: London Butterworths LexisNexis 2002Edition: 2ndDescription: 565p xxiiISBN:

9780521605953

Subject(s):

1. Science & Law2. Law - Political Aspects3. Sociological Jurisprudence4. Postmodernism - Critical theory

DDC classification:

340.115000 SAN

Contents:

Table of contents 1. The tension between regulation and emancipation in western modernity and its demise; 2. Toward an oppositional postmodern understanding of law; 3. Legal plurality and the time-spaces of law: the local, the national, and the global; 4. The law of the oppressed: the construction and reproduction of legality in Pasargada; 5. Globalization, nation-states and the legal field: from legal diaspora to legal ecumenism; 6. Law and democracy: the global reform of courts; 7. On modes of production of social law and social power; 8. Law: a map of misreading; 9. Can law be emancipatory?; Conclusion.

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Table of contents
1. The tension between regulation and emancipation in western modernity and its demise;
2. Toward an oppositional postmodern understanding of law;
3. Legal plurality and the time-spaces of law: the local, the national, and the global;
4. The law of the oppressed: the construction and reproduction of legality in Pasargada;
5. Globalization, nation-states and the legal field: from legal diaspora to legal ecumenism;
6. Law and democracy: the global reform of courts;
7. On modes of production of social law and social power;
8. Law: a map of misreading;
9. Can law be emancipatory?;
Conclusion.

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