The making of law
Subtitle: an ethnography of the Conseil d'Etat
By: by Bruno Latour ; translated by Marina Brilman and Alain Pottage ; revised by the author
Publisher: Polity
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Cambridge, UK; Malden, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 297
ISBN-13: 9780745639840; 9780745639857
Subjects: Bestuursrecht; Administrative law; France. Conseil d'État; Verwaltungsrecht; Frankreich; Conseil d'Etat (Frankrijk); Gesetzgebung; France. Conseil d'Etat; Rechtsethnologie; Rules and practice; Ethnological jurisprudence; Frankreich. Staatsrat; France; Staatsrat
Work titles: Fabrique du droit
Description: A case study of the daily practice of one of the French supreme courts, the Conseil d'Etat, which specialises in administrative law. Because of an unprecedented access to the collective discussions of judges, the author is able to reconstruct in detail the weaving of legal reasoning.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 282-290) and index.
Table of contents: title: In the shadow of Bonaparte; title: How to make a file ripe for use; title: A body in a palace; title: The passage of law; title: Scientific objects and legal objectivity; title: Talking of law?