The Making of Law: An Ethnography of the Conseil d'Etat

by Bruno Latour

Book Overview

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 courts, the Conseil d'Etat, which specializes in administrative law (the equivalent of the Law Lords in Great Britain). Even though the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0745639852
• ISBN13: 9780745639857
• Release Date: December 2009
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.9" x 8.9"