The Law Is a White Dog: How Legal Rituals Make and Unmake Persons
by Colin Dayan
The Law Is a White Dog explores how legal rituals shape the meaning and status of personhood. With a critical focus on the ways law can create, define, and undo persons, it offers a thought-provoking contribution to legal theory and social science.
About This Book
The Law Is a White Dog examines the relationship between law and personhood.
It focuses on legal rituals and the ways they can make and unmake persons.
The book offers a critical perspective on how legal forms shape identity and status.
Its subject will interest readers of law, legal theory, and social science.
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