Everyday Practices and Trouble Cases: Fundamental Issues in Law and Society Research: Volume 2

by Austin Sarat (Editor), Marianne Constable (Editor), David Engel (Editor), Valerie Hans (Editor), Susan Lawrence (Editor)

Overview

Everyday Practices and Trouble Cases asks how law helps to constitute the worlds in which we live every day, and how law responds to disruptions and disputes that arise in various realms. Leading scholars explore the dichotomy between everyday practices and trouble cases, and the way various kinds of research have addressed that dichotomy, illuminating the pervasive role of law in social life as well as the capacity of law to respond to social conflict.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780810114371
Publisher:	Northwestern University Press
Publication date:	02/20/1998
Series:	Fundamental Issues in Law and Society
Edition description:	1
Pages:	261
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

AUSTIN SARAT is the Oliver Wendell Holmes Professor of Law and Jurisprudence at Amherst College.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Ideas of the "Everyday" and the "Trouble Case" in Law and Society Scholarship: An Introduction
Austin Sarat, Marianne Constable, David Engel, Valerie Hans, and Susan Lawrence

The Criminalization of Everyday Life
Sally Engle Merry

Is the "Reasonable Person" a Reasonable Standard in a Multicultural World?
Martha Minow and Todd Rakoff

Everyday Practice Is the Troubling Case: Confronting Context in Legal Ethics
David B. Wilkins

The Everyday and the Not So Exceptional in the Social Organization of Criminal Justice Practices
John Hagan

Beyond Regulatory Reofrm: The State, Power, and "Trouble"
Kitty Calavita

The Real World of Tort Litigation
Deborah R. Hensler

Procedural Justice, Disruptin, and Reactions to Legal Authorities
E. Allan Lind

From Temple to Technology: The Construction of Courts in Everyday Practice
John Brigham

Ideas of the Everyday in Research on Legal Interpretation\
Felipe R. Gutterriez