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Mapping A Cultural Studies Of Law, Naomi Mezey
Mapping A Cultural Studies Of Law, Naomi Mezey
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In this chapter I briefly map the terrain of a set of scholarly approaches that could be called a cultural analysis of law. A cultural analysis or a cultural studies of law generally starts with the dual premise that law is a set of meaning-making practices that exists within and is the product of a particular culture and that the culture is a set of meaning-making practices that exists within and is the product of a particular set of laws.
In this chapter I unpack and elaborate this foundational idea by exploring three routes along which a cultural analysis of …