Legal Life-Writing: Marginalised Subjects and Sources

Legal Life-Writing provides the first sustained treatmentof the implications of life-writing on legal biography,autobiography and the visual history of law in society through afocus on neglected sources, and on those usually marginalized orignored in legal biography and legal history, such as women [...]
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Legal Life-Writing provides the first sustained treatmentof the implications of life-writing on legal biography,autobiography and the visual history of law in society through afocus on neglected sources, and on those usually marginalized orignored in legal biography and legal history, such as women andminorities. * Draws on a range of sources and disciplinary approachesincluding legal history, life-writing, sociology, history, arthistory, feminism and post-colonialism, seeking to build abridge-head between them * Challenges the methodologies employed in conventional accountsof legal lives * Aims to ignite debate about the nature of the relationshipbetween socio-legal studies and legal history * Aims to enlarge the fields of legal biography, legal history,history and socio-legal studies, and to foster a closer and moreinter-disciplinary dialogue between these disciplines