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Still, at the Margins

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Sarat Austin, ed., The Social Organization of Law: Introductory Readings. Los Angeles: Roxbury Publishing Co., 2004. 596 pp. $65.95 paper.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2024

Emily M.S. Houh
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In one of many traditions of critical race scholarship, this review opens with a first-person narrative. When I was asked to review Austin Sarat's new compilation of introductory readings on law and society at the “Change” breakfast of the 2004 annual Law and Society Association meeting in Chicago, I responded affirmatively but with rather tepid enthusiasm, which reflected—as I recall—the level of enthusiasm I felt for the conference overall, despite (or perhaps because of) it being my third year in attendance at the notoriously large and panel-packed meeting. When I was asked further to review the compilation specifically from a “critical race perspective,” my lack of enthusiasm quickly transformed to discomfort, and I wanted to immediately revoke my acceptance of the offer to do the review.

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Law & Society Review , Volume 40 , Issue 2 , June 2006 , pp. 481 - 492
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© 2006 Law and Society Association.

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