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How Law Knows : The Amherst Series in Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought - Martha Merrill Umphrey

How Law Knows

By: Martha Merrill Umphrey, Lawrence Douglas (Editor), Austin Sarat (Editor)

Hardcover | 8 November 2006

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When citizens think about law's ways of knowing and about how legal officials gather information, assess factual claims, and judge people and situations, they are often confused by the seemingly arcane and constrained quality of the information-gathering, fact-evaluating procedures that legal officials employ or impose. Yet law's ways of knowing as varied as are the institutions and officials who populate any legal system.

From the rules of evidence to the technologies of risk management, from the practices of racial profiling to the development of trade knowledge, from the generation of independent knowledge practices to law's dependence on outside expertise, even a brief survey shows that law knows in many different ways, that its knowledge practices are contingent and responsive to context, and that they change over time.

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"This work raises new questions while also reexamining standard socio-legal issues in refreshing ways. The result is a rich and innovative look at the routines of truth seeking and fact finding." - Patricia Ewick, Clark University "How Law Knows is a useful and interesting collection addressing law's ways of knowing. The authors reveal that the establishment and organized use of legal facts is varied, historical, and amenable to a rich and diverse set of methods of inquiry." - Jon Goldberg-Hiller, University of Hawaii, Manoa

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