Legal Consciousness and Its Significance for Law and Society Teaching Outside Canadian Law Schools

Canadian Journal of Law and Society

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 61-65

  Jacobs, Lesley A ^a  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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EID: 18844409087     PISSN: 08293201     EISSN: 19110227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0829320100007468     Document Type: Article

References (20)

1. Consultative Group on Research and Education in Law, Law and Learning (Ottawa: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, 1983) at 156.
2. Law and Learning. at 58.
3. M. Constable, Commentary presented at the Law in the Liberal Arts Conference, Amherst College, Amherst, MA, April 2002.
4. P. Ewick & S. Silbey, “Conformity, Contestation, and Resistance: An Account of Legal Consciousness” (1992) 26 New Eng. L. Rev. 731–742.
5. See e.g. G. Cohen, History, Labour, and Freedom (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988) c. 2.
6. History, Labour, and Freedom 4 at 731.
7. P. Ewick & S. Silbey, “Common Knowledge and Ideological Critique” (1999) 33 Law & Soc'y Rev. 1027.
8. P. Ewick & S. Sibley, The Common Place of Law: Stories from Everyday Life (Chicago:University of Chicago Press, 1998), c. 2.
9. The Common Place of Law: Stories from Everyday Life 7 at 1027–1028.
10. See also M. Nielsen, “Situating Legal Consciousness” (2000) 34 Law & Soc'y Rev. 1059.
11. M. Umphrey, “The Dialogics of Legal Meaning” (1999) 33 Law & Soc'y Rev. 395.
12. See for example my discussion in L. Jacobs, Pursuing Equal Opportunities: The theory and practice of egalitarian justice (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003) c. 2.
13. Pursuing Equal Opportunities: The theory and practice of egalitarian justice 7 at 1026.
14. Pursuing Equal Opportunities: The theory and practice of egalitarian justice 10 at 1059.
15. Pursuing Equal Opportunities: The theory and practice of egalitarian justice 7 at 1028–1033.
16. Pursuing Equal Opportunities: The theory and practice of egalitarian justice 10 at 1061.
17. R. Dworkin, Law's Empire (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1986) at 410.
18. The other outsider perspective worth noting is the viewpoint that looks at legal phenomena from one of the social sciences. See S. Macaulay, L. Friedman & J. Stookey, “Introduction” to S. Macaulay, L. Friedman, & J. Stookey, eds., Law and Society: Readings on the Social Study of Law (New York: W.W. Norton, 1995) at 1
19. Dworkin, Law and Society: Readings on the Social Study of Law 17 at 13–14.
20. I have, for example, discussed this in the context of health care reform in my forthcoming book. L. Jacobs, Canadian Health Care Policy: Values, Rights, Law (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2004).