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Studying Law by Association: Bruno Latour Goes to the Conseil d’État

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 December 2018

Ron Levi  and
Mariana Valverde
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Abstract

This essay provides an overview of actor-network theory (ANT) and its potential interest for sociolegal scholars. It focuses on Bruno Latour's 2002 ethnography of La fabrique du droit: une ethnographie du Conseil d’État [The factory of law: an ethnography of the Conseil d’État] (2002b), which provides an analysis of the workings of the French Conseil d’État. The essay seeks to introduce non-French-reading sociolegal researchers to this work and draws out methodological and theoretical implications for research on legal institutions, legal knowledge, and bureaucracies.

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Law & Social Inquiry , Volume 33 , Issue 3 , Summer 2008 , pp. 805 - 825
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Copyright © American Bar Foundation, 2008 

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