Legal Life-Writing : Marginalised Subjects and Sources Paperback / softback
by Linda Mulcahy, David Sugarman
Part of the Journal of Law and Society Special Issues series
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Legal Life-Writing provides the first sustained treatment of the implications of life-writing on legal biography, autobiography and the visual history of law in society through a focus on neglected sources, and on those usually marginalized or ignored in legal biography and legal history, such as women and minorities. Draws on a range of sources and disciplinary approaches including legal history, life-writing, sociology, history, art history, feminism and post-colonialism, seeking to build a bridge-head between themChallenges the methodologies employed in conventional accounts of legal livesAims to ignite debate about the nature of the relationship between socio-legal studies and legal historyAims to enlarge the fields of legal biography, legal history, history and socio-legal studies, and to foster a closer and more inter-disciplinary dialogue between these disciplines
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:200 pages
- Publisher:John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Publication Date:24/04/2015
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- ISBN:9781119052166
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:200 pages
- Publisher:John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Publication Date:24/04/2015
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- ISBN:9781119052166
