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Out Of The Ordinary: Law, Power, Culture, And The Commonplace, Naomi Mezey
Out Of The Ordinary: Law, Power, Culture, And The Commonplace, Naomi Mezey
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
Review of The Common Place of Law: Stories From Everyday Life by Patricia Ewick & Susan S. Silbey (1998).
Sometimes a work's intellectual influences reveal both its strengths and its shortcomings. This is certainly the case with Patricia Ewick and Susan Silbey's The Common Place of Law: Stories From Everyday Life, and its indebtedness to the thinking of Michel Foucault and Michel de Certeau. Taken together, Foucault and de Certeau's work suggests that investigations of law's power are most fruitful not at the level of legal institutions and the state but at the level of lived experience, where we …