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“Law as a special type of social link: a field study of a French Supreme Court”
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"Law as a special type of social link:
a field study of a French Supreme Court"
Bruno Latour
Sciences Po, Paris
  Podcast
Bruno Latour is a French
anthropologist,
sociologist, and a theorist in the field of Science and Technology
Studies.
After teaching at the École des Mines de Paris, he is now a Professor
and the
Vice-President
for research at Sciences Po, Paris.
In a series of books, he has been
exploring
the consequences of science studies on different traditional topics of
the
social sciences: religion, science, law, politics, etc.
After a long
period of
fieldwork on one of the French supreme Courts, he has published a
monograph La Fabrique du droit. Une ethnographie du
Conseil d'Etat.
The English translation, The Making of Law: An Ethnography of the Conseil d'Etat (Polity Press, Cambridge) has just been published.
Chairs: Fernanda Pirie, CSLS-St Cross College and Judith Scheele, All Souls College
Convenor: Frédéric Audren, CNRS-MFO
With the support of the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, University of Oxford
