Law's dream of a common knowledge [electronic resource] / Mariana Valverde.
Series: Cultural lives of lawPublication details: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2003.Description: x, 247 pISBN:- 0691086982 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0691086990 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 340/.11 21
- K380 .V35 2003eb

Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-240) and index.
Introduction -- The art of drawing the line : judicial knowledges of community morality and community harms -- The forensic gaze : law's search for moral clues -- Beyond sexuality? -- "The lifestyle that fits the doctrine of sexual orientation" -- Police science, British style : pub licensing and knowledges of urban disorder -- "Common knowledge must enter the equation somewhere" : knowledge as responsibility -- Racial masquerades : white inquiries into "the Indian style of life."
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