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Sez Who? Critical Legal History Without A Privileged Position, John Henry Schlegel

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Published as Chapter 30 in Oxford Handbook of Historical Legal Research, Markus D. Dubber & Christopher Tomlins, eds.

Scholars active in the Critical Legal Studies movement of the 1980s regularly attacked the scholarship of liberal legalist scholars by using a variety of then contemporary epistemological theories that argued for the impossibility of any observer attaining a neutral position from which to observe social activities. Somewhat surprisingly, liberal legalist scholars seldom turned this criticism back at the work of CLS scholars who themselves never criticized their own work as they did that of other scholars. The examination of several pieces of …

The Embedded Liberalism Compromise In The Making Of The Gatt And Uruguay Round Agreements, Meredith Kolsky Lewis

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Published as Chapter 2 in The Future of International Economic Integration: The Embedded Liberalism Compromise Revisited, Gillian Moon & Lisa Toohey, eds.

Privacy And The Right To One’S Image: A Cultural And Legal History, Samantha Barbas

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Published as Chapter 9 in Injury and Injustice: The Cultural Politics of Harm and Redress, Anne Bloom, David M. Engel & Michael McCann, eds.

Chairs, Stairs, And Automobiles: The Cultural Construction Of Injuries And The Failed Promise Of Law, David M. Engel

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Published as Chapter 5 in Injury and Injustice: The Cultural Politics of Harm and Redress, Anne Bloom, David M. Engel & Michael McCann, eds.

Looking Backward, Looking Forward, David M. Engel

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Published as Chapter 17 in Insiders, Outsiders, Injuries, and Law: Revisiting The Oven Bird’s Song.

The Songs Of Other Birds, Anya Bernstein

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Published as Chapter 14 in Insiders, Outsiders, Injuries, and Law: Revisiting The Oven Bird’s Song, Mary Nell Trautner, ed..

In this essay, written for a volume that re-engages with David Engel's classic article, The Oven Bird's Song, I consider how we decide how to situate what we encounter in our research. Comparing the findings of my own research in Taipei with Engel's work in Thailand and America, I ask how we can decide to give different interpretations of seemingly similar social phenomena -- specifically, our interlocutors' evident distaste for invoking the law.

Although many of my interlocutors in Taiwan expressed …

Karl’S Law School, Or The Oven Bird In Buffalo, Alfred F. Konefsky

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Published as Chapter 4 in Insiders, Outsiders, Injuries, and Law: Revisiting The Oven Bird’s Song.

Client Selection, Lynn Mather

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Published as Chapter 6 in Insiders, Outsiders, Injuries, and Law: Revisiting The Oven Bird’s Song.

Environmental Principles In U.S. And Canadian Law, Errol E. Meidinger, Daniel Spitzer, Charles Malcomb

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Published as Chapter 29 in Principles of Environmental Law, Ludwig Krämer & Emanuela Orlando, eds.

The Use Of Property Law Tools For Soil Protection, Jessica Owley

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Published in International Yearbook of Soil Law and Policy 2017, Harald Ginzky, Elizabeth Dooley, Irene L. Heuser, Emmanuel Kasimbazi, Till Markus & Tianbao Qin, eds.

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