The Law of the Other: The Mixed Jury and Changing Conceptions of Citizenship, Law, and Knowledge

by Marianne Constable

Book Overview

The Law of the Other is an account of the English doctrine of the "mixed jury". Constable's excavation of the historical, rhetorical, and theoretical foundations of modern law recasts our legal and sociological understandings of the American jury and our contemporary conceptions of law, citizenship, and truth.

The "mixed jury" doctrine allowed resident foreigners to have law suits against English natives tried before juries composed...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226114988
• ISBN13: 9780226114989
• Release Date: February 1994
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.2" x 9.1"