Cultural Analysis, Cultural Studies, and the Law is a field-defining collection of work at the intersection of law, cultural analysis and cultural studies. Over the past few decades the marked turn toward claims and policy arguments based on cultural identity—such as ethnicity, race, or religion—has pointed up the urgent need for legal studies to engage cultural critiques. Exploration of legal issues through cultural analyses provides a rich supplement to other approaches—including legal realism, law and economics, and law and society. As Austin Sarat and Jonathan Simon demonstrate, scholars of the law have begun to mine the humanities for new theoretical tools and kinds of knowledge. Crucial to this effort is cultural studies, with its central focus on the relationship between knowledge and power.
Drawing on legal scholarship, literary criticism, psychoanalytic theory, and anthropology, the essays collected here exemplify the contributions cultural analysis and cultural studies make to interdisciplinary legal study. Some of these broad-ranging pieces describe particular approaches to the cultural study of the law, while others look at specific moments where the law and culture intersect. Contributors confront the deep connections between law, social science, and post-World War II American liberalism; examine the traffic between legal and late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century scientific discourses; and investigate, through a focus o
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I Approaches to the Cultural Study of Law
I Approaches to the Cultural Study of Law
I Approaches to the Cultural Study of Law
What It Is and What It Isn’t: Cultural Studies Meets Graduate Student Labor
What It Is and What It Isn’t: Cultural Studies Meets Graduate Student Labor
What It Is and What It Isn’t: Cultural Studies Meets Graduate Student Labor
Telling a Less Suspicious Story: Notes toward a Nonskeptical Approach to Legal/Cultural Analysis
Telling a Less Suspicious Story: Notes toward a Nonskeptical Approach to Legal/Cultural Analysis
Telling a Less Suspicious Story: Notes toward a Nonskeptical Approach to Legal/Cultural Analysis
Freedom, Autonomy, and the Cultural Study of Law
Freedom, Autonomy, and the Cultural Study of Law
Freedom, Autonomy, and the Cultural Study of Law
II Deploying Law and Legal Ideas in Culture and Society
II Deploying Law and Legal Ideas in Culture and Society
II Deploying Law and Legal Ideas in Culture and Society
Ethnography and Democracy: Texts and Contexts in the United Statesin the 1990s
Ethnography and Democracy: Texts and Contexts in the United Statesin the 1990s
Ethnography and Democracy: Texts and Contexts in the United Statesin the 1990s
Rules of Law, Laws of Science
Rules of Law, Laws of Science
Rules of Law, Laws of Science
A Ghost in the House of Justice: Death and the Language of the Law
A Ghost in the House of Justice: Death and the Language of the Law
A Ghost in the House of Justice: Death and the Language of the Law
‘‘Into the Blue’’: The Image Written on Law
‘‘Into the Blue’’: The Image Written on Law
‘‘Into the Blue’’: The Image Written on Law
Cultural Analysis, Cultural Studies, and the Law
：Moving Beyond Legal Realism
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