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The Making of Law: An Ethnography of the Conseil d'Etat
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The Making of Law: An Ethnography of the Conseil d'Etat Hardcover - 2010 - 1st Edition

by Bruno LaTour


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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 court, the Conseil d'Etat, specialized 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 forms the 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 details 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 acticity. 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 book is in effect the Laboratory Life of Law.

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  • Title The Making of Law: An Ethnography of the Conseil d'Etat
  • Author Bruno LaTour
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 280
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Polity Press
  • Date 2010-01-01
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Glossary, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780745639840 / 0745639844
  • Weight 1.25 lbs (0.57 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.1 x 6.1 x 1.1 in (23.11 x 15.49 x 2.79 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: French
    • Interdisciplinary Studies: Law Studies
  • Library of Congress subjects Administrative law - France, France - Rules and practice
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2010286711
  • Dewey Decimal Code 342.440

About the author

Bruno Latour is Professor of Sociology at Ecoles des mines, Paris.
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