Legal Life-Writing Marginalized Subjects and Sources - Journal of Law and Society Special Issues

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 them Challenges the methodologies employed in conventional accounts of legal lives Aims to ignite debate about the nature of the relationship between socio-legal studies and legal history Aims 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 

ISBN:	9781119052166
Publisher:	Wiley
Imprint:	Wiley Blackwell
Published date:	24 Apr 2015
DEWEY:	340.092520941
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Number of pages:	172
Weight:	216g
Height:	231mm
Width:	153mm
Spine width:	7mm

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