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A New Conception of Law?
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 April 2024
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In his address to the 1995 Law and Society Association, Boaventura de Sousa Santos argued that times are changing and that “we”—the law and society audience, among others—must use “the imagination to explore new modes of human possibility and styles of will and to oppose the necessity of what exists on behalf of something radically better that is worth fighting for and to which humanity is fully entitled” (Santos 1995:573). Admirable sentiments, on which Santos elaborates via three suggestive metaphors introduced to help “reinvent maps of social emancipation and subjectivities with the capacity and desire for using them” (ibid.).
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- Charting a Course for Sociolegal Scholarship: A Symposium
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