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

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The Law of the Other: The Mixed Jury and Changing Conceptions of Citizenship, Law, and Knowledge - Constable, Marianne
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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 traces the transformations in ...

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The Law of the Other: The Mixed Jury and Changing Conceptions of Citizenship, Law, and Knowledge 1994, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL

ISBN-13: 9780226114965

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The Law of the Other: The Mixed Jury and Changing Conceptions of Citizenship, Law, and Knowledge 1994, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL

ISBN-13: 9780226114989

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