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Duncan Kennedy's Third Globalization, Criminal Law, And The Spectacle, Aya Gruber
Duncan Kennedy's Third Globalization, Criminal Law, And The Spectacle, Aya Gruber
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Law And Phrenology, Pierre Schlag
Law And Phrenology, Pierre Schlag
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As the intellectual credentials of American law become increasingly dubious, the question arises: how has this discipline been intellectually organized to sustain belief among its academic practitioners? This Commentary explores the nineteenth-century pseudo-science of phrenology as a way of gaining insight into the intellectual organization of American law. Although there are, obviously, significant differences, the parallels are at once striking and edifying. Both phrenology and law emerged as disciplinary knowledges through attempts to cast them in the form of sciences. In both cases, the "sciences" were aesthetically organized around a fundamental ontology of reifications and animisms -- "faculties" in the …
Post-Modern Hearsay Reform: The Importance Of Complexity, Christopher B. Mueller
Post-Modern Hearsay Reform: The Importance Of Complexity, Christopher B. Mueller
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