Author : Professor Baudouin Dupret
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1409494713
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (94 download)
Book Synopsis Adjudication in Action by : Professor Baudouin Dupret
Download or read book Adjudication in Action written by Professor Baudouin Dupret and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-01-28 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adjudication in Action describes the moral dimension of judicial activities and the judicial approach to questions of morality, observing the contextualized deployment of various practices and the activities of diverse people who, in different capacities, find themselves involved with institutional judicial space. Exploring the manner in which the enactment of the law is morally accomplished, and how practical, legal cognition mediates and modulates the treatment of cases dealing with sexual morality, this book offers a rich, praxeological study that engages with 'living' law as it unfolds in action. Inspired by Wittgenstein's later thought and engaging with recent developments in ethnomethodology and conversation analysis, Adjudication in Action challenges approaches that reduce the law to mere provisions of a legal code, presenting instead an understanding of law as a resource that stands in need of contextualization. Through the close description of people's orientation to and reification of legal categories within the framework of institutional settings, this book constitutes the first comprehensive study of law in context and in action.