Introduction: Law at Work

Baudouin Dupret (1) , Michael Lynch (2) , Tim Berard (3)

1 CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
2 Cornell University [New York]
3 Kent State University

The studies in this volume use ethnographic, ethnomethodological, and sociolinguistic research to demonstrate how legal agents conduct their practices and exercise their authority in relation to non-expert participants and broader publics. Rather than treating law as a body of doctrines, or law and society as a relationship between legal institutions and an external society, the studies in this volume closely examine "law at work": specific legal practices and social interactions produced in national and international settings. These settings include courtrooms and other tribunals, consultations between lawyers and clients, and media forums in which government officials address international law.

Mots clés: law; praxeology; ethnomethodology; ethnography; sociolinguistics; legal interactions; legal practices

Domaines: Sociologie

Baudouin Dupret, Michael Lynch, Tim Berard. Introduction: Law at Work. Law at Work: Studies in Legal Ethnomethods, Oxford University Press, 2015. ⟨halshs-01573833⟩