Title: Patricia Ewick and Susan Silbey and <i>The Common Place of Law</i>
Abstract: It may be Panglossian to say that everything works out for the best, but you could forgive Patricia Ewick and Susan Silbey for taking that view. The well-regarded book, The Common Place of Law, did not begin as their project or even the kind of project they might have crafted. Living in Massachusetts – and with families at home – left on their own, they would not have designed a project involving extensive travel to New Jersey. Substantively the project pushed them in new directions. But the invitation to have a hand in this project, and then the necessity of seeing it through, put Ewick and Silbey at the center of currents in the field, a place to make a contribution. Even the setting – the racially diverse, understudied mid-Atlantic state – turned out to be fortuitous.
Publication Year: 2009
Publication Date: 2009-05-25
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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