Lawyers in a postmodern world : translation and transgression / edited by Maureen Cain and Christine B. Harrington.
1994
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Title
Lawyers in a postmodern world : translation and transgression / edited by Maureen Cain and Christine B. Harrington.
Published
New York : New York University Press, 1994.
Call Number
Comp 082 L4485 1994
ISBN
0814715044 (cloth) :
0814715036 (pbk.) :
0814715036 (pbk.) :
Description
xii, 318 pages ; 24 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)29028818
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages [286]-310) and index.
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Table of Contents
List of contributors
Series editor's introduction
Introduction / Maureen Cain Christine B. Harrington
1
Pt. 1
Understanding lawyering
13
1The symbol traders / Maureen Cain
15
2Outlining a theory of legal practice / Christine B. Harrington
49
Pt. 2
Constituting capital and the state
71
3Legal creativity: law, capital and legal avoidance / Doreen McBarnet
73
4Capital fractionalized: the role of insolvency practitioners in asset distribution / Sally Wheeler
85
5Blurred boundaries: the overlapping worlds of law, business and politics / David Sugarman
105
6Lawyers' work as constitutive of gender relations / Sue Lees
124
7The forum should fit the fuss: the economics and politics of negotiated justice / Yves Dezalay
155
Pt. 3
Towards prefigurative legal practices
183
8Miners and lawyers: law practice and class conflict in Appalachia 1872-1920 / Frank Munger
185
9Feminist legal scholarship and women's gendered lives / Martha L.A. Fineman
229
10Para-legals and prefiguration: working in black townships towards a post-apartheid South Africa / Wilfried Scharf
247
11The contradictions of radical law practice / Stuart Scheingold
265
Bibliography
286
Index
310