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An account of the English doctrine of the “mixed jury”, which allowed resident foreigners to have law suits against English natives tried before juries composed half of natives and half of aliens like themselves. The book traces the transformations in this doctrine from the Middle Ages up to 1870.
The Law of the Other, 2nd Edition
The Mixed Jury and Changing Conceptions of Citizenship, Law, and Knowledge
- Paperback
208 pages
- Release Date
27 February 1994
Summary
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 half of natives and half of aliens like themselves. As she t…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780226114989 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0226114988 |
| Author: | Marianne Constable |
| Publisher: | The University of Chicago Press |
| Imprint: | University of Chicago Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 208 |
| Edition: | 2nd |
| Release Date: | 27 February 1994 |
| Weight: | 284g |
| Dimensions: | 23mm x 16mm x 1mm |
| Series: | New Practices of Inquiry Series NPI |
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Marianne Constable
Marianne Constable is assistant professor of rhetoric at the University of California at Berkeley.
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