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The Place of Law
Austin Sarat, Lawrence Douglas, and Martha Merrill Umphrey, EditorsIt has long been standard practice in legal studies to identify the place of law within the social order. And yet, as The Place of Law suggests, the meaning of the concept of "the place of law" is not self-evident.
This book helps us see how the law defines territory and attempts to keep things in place; it shows how law can be, and is, used to create particular kinds of places -- differentiating, for example, individual property from public land. And it looks at place as a metaphor that organizes the way we see the world. This important new book urges us to ask about the usefulness of metaphors of place in the design of legal regulation.
This book helps us see how the law defines territory and attempts to keep things in place; it shows how law can be, and is, used to create particular kinds of places -- differentiating, for example, individual property from public land. And it looks at place as a metaphor that organizes the way we see the world. This important new book urges us to ask about the usefulness of metaphors of place in the design of legal regulation.
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Cover
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Title
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Copyright
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Dedication
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Acknowledgments
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Contents
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Where (or What) Is the Place of Law? An Introduction
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Time against Territoriality: National Laws and Literary Translations
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The Empty Place: Legal Formalities and the Cultural State
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The Architecture of Authority: The Place of Law in the Space of Science
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Digital Networks, State Authority, and Politics
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The Place of Cyberlaw
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Against Cyberspace
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Contributors
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Index
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Published: 2003
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
- 978-0-472-02208-3 (ebook)
- 978-0-472-03158-0 (paper)