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Ballad of a Thin Man: Sociolegal Studies in a Time of Postmodern Crisis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 April 2024

Jonathan Simon
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Because something is happening here but you don't know what it is Do you, Mr. Jones?

—Bob Dylan

What happens when the occupiers abandon the city but the forces of liberation fail to show up? What should we do when the rebels lose the people in a thicket of doctrine and become terrorists, but the empire can't imagine how to strike back except with more terror directed at the same people?

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Charting a Course for Sociolegal Scholarship: A Symposium
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Law & Society Review , Volume 29 , Issue 4 , 1995 , pp. 631 - 638
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Copyright © 1995 by The Law and Society Association

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