How Law Knows by Austin Sarat

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The essays assembled in How Law Knows provide a sample of the diversity, responsiveness, and influence that law's knowledge practices have on legal outcomes and the world beyond law.

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How Law Knows by Austin Sarat

The essays assembled in How Law Knows provide a sample of the diversity, responsiveness, and influence that law's knowledge practices have on legal outcomes and the world beyond law.
"This work raises new questions while also reexamining standard socio-legal issues in refreshing waysThe result is a rich and innovative look at the routines of truth seeking and fact finding."—Patricia Ewick, Clark University
"How Law Knows is a useful and interesting collection addressing law's ways of knowing. The authors reveal that the establishment and organized use of legal facts is varied, historical, and amenable to a rich and diverse set of methods of inquiry."—Jon Goldberg-Hiller, University of Hawaii, Manoa
Austin Sarat is William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science and Five College Fortieth Anniversary Professor at Amherst College. Lawrence Douglas is Professor of Law, Jurisprudence & Social Thought at Amherst College. Martha Merrill Umphrey is Associate Professor of Law, Jurisprudence & Social Thought at Amherst College.
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ISBN 13 9780804755252
ISBN 10 0804755256
Title How Law Knows
Author Austin Sarat
Series The Amherst Series In Law Jurisprudence And Social Thought
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Hardback
Publisher Stanford University Press
Year published 2006-11-08
Number of pages 224
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