The Law of the Other: The Mixed Jury and Changing Conceptions of Citizenship, Law, and Knowledge (New Practices of Inquiry)

Constable, Marianne

ISBN 10: 0226114988 / ISBN 13: 9780226114989

Editore: University of Chicago Press, 1994

Codice articolo 99P81_74_0226114988

Riassunto:

The Law of the Other is an account of the English doctrine of the "mixed jury". Constable's excavation of the historical, rhetorical, and theoretical foundations of modern law recasts our legal and sociological understandings of the American jury and our contemporary conceptions of law, citizenship, and truth.

The "mixed jury" doctrine allowed resident foreigners to have law suits against English natives tried before juries composed half of natives and half of aliens like themselves. As she traces the transformations in this doctrine from the Middle Ages to its abolition in 1870, Constable also reveals the emergence of a world where law rooted in actual practices and customs of communities is replaced by law determined by officials, where juries no longer strive to speak the truth but to ascertain the facts.

Informazioni sull?autore:

Marianne Constable is assistant professor of rhetoric at the University of California at Berkeley.

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Titolo: The Law of the Other: The Mixed Jury and ...
Casa editrice: University of Chicago Press
Data di pubblicazione: 1994
Legatura: Brossura
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