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Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review
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TY - JOUR
T1 - From legal biography to legal life writing
T2 - Book Launch and Seminar
AU - Sugarman, David
PY - 2015/3
Y1 - 2015/3
N2 - This article describes and analyses how legal life writing has grown to embrace a wider range of subjects, sources, and methods – from eminent white male judges to women, minorities, displaced persons, and outsiders – and explains and justifies it as an intellectual project. It considers some of life writing's challenges, shortcomings, and dilemmas, suggesting ways forward. The aim is to advance an important, inter-disciplinary perspective in the making: namely, a more pluralistic, democratic conception of legal life writing, which offers new ways of advancing legal history and socio-legal scholarship, encouraging inter-disciplinary dialogue. It is argued that legal life writing demonstrates the value of historical thinking in comprehending law, politics, and culture; it can also supplement the study of law, helping legal historians and socio-legal scholars to develop new skills and embrace a wider range of participants and audiences, thereby enhancing their ability to engage with public issues and public history.
AB - This article describes and analyses how legal life writing has grown to embrace a wider range of subjects, sources, and methods – from eminent white male judges to women, minorities, displaced persons, and outsiders – and explains and justifies it as an intellectual project. It considers some of life writing's challenges, shortcomings, and dilemmas, suggesting ways forward. The aim is to advance an important, inter-disciplinary perspective in the making: namely, a more pluralistic, democratic conception of legal life writing, which offers new ways of advancing legal history and socio-legal scholarship, encouraging inter-disciplinary dialogue. It is argued that legal life writing demonstrates the value of historical thinking in comprehending law, politics, and culture; it can also supplement the study of law, helping legal historians and socio-legal scholars to develop new skills and embrace a wider range of participants and audiences, thereby enhancing their ability to engage with public issues and public history.
KW - legal history
KW - socio-legal studies
KW - law and literature
KW - visual images of law
KW - life-writing
KW - biography
KW - women
KW - the legal profession
KW - legal education
U2 - 10.1111/j.1467-6478.2015.00696.x
DO - 10.1111/j.1467-6478.2015.00696.x
M3 - Journal article
VL - 42
SP - 7
EP - 33
JO - Journal of Law and Society
JF - Journal of Law and Society
SN - 0263-323X
IS - 1
Y2 - 9 February 2015 through 1 January 2016
ER -