Between Law and Culture Relocating Legal Studies David Theo Goldberg, Michael Musheno, and Lisa C. Bower, editors		$30.00 paper ISBN: 0-8166-3381-9 ISBN-13: 978-0-8166-3381-4 $90.00 cloth ISBN: 0-8166-3380-0 ISBN-13: 978-0-8166-3380-7
A fundamental reconsideration of legal studies in a time of changing ideas about culture, power, and identity. What happens to legal thought when key terms—society, culture, power, justice, identity-become unsettled? With the boundaries defining sociolegal scholarship undergoing a profound shift, this book explores the intersections of law, culture, and identity. Sexuality, race, sports, and the politics of policing are among the topics the authors take up as they examine how law both reproduces and challenges fundamental notions of order, discipline, and identity. “Between Law and Culture is a lively, engaging, and thoughtful contribution to sociolegal scholarship. It presents a range of provocative research by scholars who are not afraid to confront the tension between the search for clean theoretical frameworks and the messiness of everyday existence under the law.” —Law and Politics Book Review Contributors: Rosemary J. Coombe, David M. Engel, Marjorie Garber, Herman Gray, Rona Tamiko Halualani, David Harvey, Deb Henderson, Yuen J. Huo, S. Lily Mendoza, Trish Oberweis, Paul A. Passavant, Lisa E. Sanchez, Carl F. Stychin, Tom R. Tyler, Christine A. Yalda. David Theo Goldberg is director of the system-wide Humanities Research Institute at the University of California and professor of African American studies and criminology, law, and society at the University of California, Irvine. Michael Musheno is professor of justice studies at Arizona State University. Lisa C. Bower is an independent writer who lives in San Francisco. 496 pages | 3 graphs, 1 table | 7 x 10 | 2001