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Volume 23 - Fall 1998

Contents

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Article

  • Is There Any Backbone in This Fish? Interpretive Communities, Social Criticism, and Transgressive Legal Practice

  • Andrew Goldsmith
  • Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    27 December 2018, pp. 373-428

  • This article examines the social conditions of lawyers' moral agency, through the focus of the work of Stanley Fish. A central concept in Fish's work, and one relevant to understanding the nature of professional groups, is that of interpretive communities. This notion is examined to reveal its sociological as well as philosophical assumptions, and their implications for legal practice. The article takes issue with Fish's stance on the value of theory for practice and challenges the notion of discreteness of interpretive communities inherent in Fish's position. It argues that the resources for criticism within professional groups are more numerous and powerful than Fish allows. Taking two cases studies, it attempts to demonstrate the transgressive nature of some legal practices. In the final section, redefining the law school's community and interdisciplinary scholarship are suggested as devices for escaping Fish's “net.” A critical hermeneutics of legal practice is argued for.

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Habermas and Sociolegal Theory

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  • LSI volume 23 issue 1 Cover and Front matter

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    27 December 2018, pp. f1-f5
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