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Dalhousie Law Journal

2015

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Who Are We?: The Quest For Identity In Law, Colin Jackson, Kim Brooks Oct 2015

Who Are We?: The Quest For Identity In Law, Colin Jackson, Kim Brooks

Dalhousie Law Journal

Scholars from Haraway to Foucault to Freud, from Bourdieu to Erikson to Scarry have theorized identity across continents and among disciplines. Despite the rich material available, however, interrogations of identity in law have remained isolated within substantive areas of law (those working on identity in evidence law have not necessarily met issue with those exploring identity in constitutional law, for example), and have been more limited in scope and imagination than the interrogations undertaken in other disciplines.