Legal Life Writing

Marginalized Subjects and Sources
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-119-05216-6
Verlag: Wiley

Buch, Englisch, 200 Seiten, Format (B × H): 150 mm x 226 mm, Gewicht: 204 g

Reihe: 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

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mulcahy, Linda

Sugarman, David

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Politische Ethnologie, Recht, Organisation, Identität
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Regionalwissenschaften, Regionalstudien
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder England, UK, Irland: Regional & Stadtgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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)

Über Autor(innen)

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.