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Constitutional Ethnography: An Introduction

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2024

Kim Lane Scheppele
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Constitutional Ethnography: An Introduction
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Law & Society Review , Volume 38 , Issue 3 , September 2004 , pp. 389 - 406
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© 2004 Law and Society Association.

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Footnotes

I would like to thank Joe Sanders, Nita Lineberry, Bert Kritzer, and Dianne Sattinger for organizing the complicated process at the Law & Society Review from which guest editors benefit, and Bert Kritzer in particular for constructive comments on this introduction. I would also like to thank the authors whose work appears in this issue for putting up with so many requests for revision, for handling these requests gracefully, and for helping me work out what I meant in the first place by constitutional ethnography. Finally, I would like to thank Serguei Oushakine for his theoretical insight and ethnographic support.

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