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Article: Austin Sarat and Jonathon Simon, editors, Cultural Analysis, Cultural Studies, and the Law: Moving Beyond Legal Realism.(Book Review)
- Article from:
- American Studies International
- Article date:
- February 1, 2004
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(Durham: Duke University Press, 2003), 366 pp., $24.95 (cloth).
Sarat and Simon have created a collection that exemplifies the diversity of legal, literary, psychoanalytic, and cultural studies approaches to bridging law and culture. The essays draw on case studies from the United States and beyond to explore the shift in legal analysis, from social institutions and social science to cultural practices, rituals, and texts, as the primary objects in legal theory. In their well-crafted introduction, Sarat and Simon identify the burgeoning confluence of law and cultural studies as reflective of a recent shift in scholarship on legal discourse. The real strength of ...