Indeed, such narrative tropes – “the pictures in our heads” Walter Lippmann called them in Public Opinion – account for some of the wild historical misconstruals (myths and fantasies) that continue to fuel our most volatile political and constitutional disagreements today, where so many Americans remain militantly and violently unreconciled to even the most modest of modern socio-economic (to say nothing of public health and safety) regulations. [read post]

Applying Pierre Bourdieu’s concept of legal fields, the data suggested that both systems produce legitimacy but in quite different ways and, interestingly, that the one more similar to domestic legal systems takes that form due to political forces, not by an incremental process powered by people with legal backgrounds. [read post]

Applying Pierre Bourdieu’s concept of legal fields, the data suggested that both systems produce legitimacy but in quite different ways and, interestingly, that the one more similar to domestic legal systems takes that form due to political forces, not by an incremental process powered by people with legal backgrounds. [read post]