Law and the Epistemologies of the South

by Boaventura de Sousa Santos

Modern state law excludes populations, peoples, and social groups by making them invisible, irrelevant, or dangerous. In this book, Boaventura de Sousa Santos offers a radical critique of the law and develops an innovative paradigm of socio-legal studies which is based on the historical experience of the Global South. He traces the history of modern law as an abyssal law, or a kind of law that is theoretically invisible yet implements profound exclusions...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1316610462
• ISBN13: 9781316610466
• Release Date: June 2023
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 2.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"