Name: Making of Law: An Ethnography of the Conseil D'etat (Revised) (en Inglés)
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Author: Bruno Latour
ISBN: 9780745639857

portada Making of Law: An Ethnography of the Conseil D'etat (Revised) (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

Polity Press

Autor

Bruno Latour

Año

2009

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

280

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

ISBN

0745639852

ISBN13

9780745639857

N° edición

Categorías

Derecho administrativo y administraciones públicas

Making of Law: An Ethnography of the Conseil D'etat (Revised) (en Inglés)

Bruno Latour (Autor) · Polity Press · Tapa Blanda

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In this book, Bruno Latour pursues his ethnographic inquiries into the different value systems of modern societies. After science, technology, religion, art, it is now law that is being studied by using the same comparative ethnographic methods. The case study is the daily practice of one of the French supreme courts, the Conseil d’Etat, which specializes in administrative law (the equivalent of the Law Lords in Great Britain). Even though the French legal system is vastly different from the Anglo-American tradition, it just happens that this branch of French law, although created by Napoleon Bonaparte at the same time as the Code-based system, is the result of a home-grown tradition constructed on precedents. Thus, even though highly technical, the cases that form the subject matter of this book are not so exotic for an English-speaking audience. What makes this study an important contribution to the social studies of law is that, because of an unprecedented access to the collective discussions of judges, Latour has been able to reconstruct in detail the weaving of legal reasoning: it is clearly not the social that explains the law, but the legal ties that alter what it is to be associated together. It is thus a major contribution to Latour’s social theory since it is now possible to compare the ways legal ties build up associations with the other types of connections that he has studied in other fields of activity. His project of an alternative interpretation of the very notion of society has never been made clearer than in this work. To reuse the title of his first book, this volume is in effect ‘The Laboratory Life of Law’.