Legal Life-Writing

Marginalised Subjects and Sources

Häftad, Engelska, 2015

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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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Utgivningsdatum2015-04-24
Mått152 x 229 x 6 mm
Vikt218 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieJournal of Law and Society Special Issues
Antal sidor200
FörlagJohn Wiley and Sons Ltd
ISBN9781119052166

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Linda Mulcahy is a Professor of Law at the London School of Economics and Political Science, London. She is the author or editor of several books including Legal Architecture: Justice, Due Process and the Place of Law (2011).David Sugarman is a Professor of Law at Lancaster University Law School, UK. He is the author and editor of 18 books, has published articles in The Guardian and The Times, and is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.

1. Introduction: Legal Life Writing and Marginalized Subjects and Sources (Linda Mulcahy and David Sugarman) 2. From Legal Biography to Legal Life Writing: Broadening Conceptions of Legal History and Socio-legal Scholarship (David Sugarman) 3. Recovering Lost Lives: Researching Women in Legal History (Rosemary Auchmuty)4. Watching Women: What Illustrations of Courtroom Scenes Tell Us about Women and the Public Sphere in the Nineteenth Century (Linda Mulcahy)5. Judicial Pictures as Legal Life-writing Data and a Research Method (Leslie J. Moran)6. Ivor Jennings's Constitutional Legacy beyond the Occidental-Oriental Divide (Mara Malagodi)7. The United Kingdom's First Woman Law Professor: An Archerian Analysis (Fiona Cownie)8. Judah Benjamin: Marginalized Outsider or Admitted Insider? (Catharine MacMillan)