The Law of the Other: The Mixed Jury and Changing Conceptions of Citizenship, Law, and Knowledge
University of Chicago Press, 1994
Cloth: 978-0-226-11496-5 | Paper: 978-0-226-11498-9
Library of Congress Classification KD7540.C66 1994
Dewey Decimal Classification 347.42075209
Cloth: 978-0-226-11496-5 | Paper: 978-0-226-11498-9
Library of Congress Classification KD7540.C66 1994
Dewey Decimal Classification 347.42075209
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | TOC
ABOUT THIS BOOK
The Law of the Other is an account of the English doctrine of the "mixed jury". Constable's excavation of the historical, rhetorical, and theoretical foundations of modern law recasts our legal and sociological understandings of the American jury and our contemporary conceptions of law, citizenship, and truth.
The "mixed jury" doctrine allowed resident foreigners to have law suits against English natives tried before juries composed half of natives and half of aliens like themselves. As she traces the transformations in this doctrine from the Middle Ages to its abolition in 1870, Constable also reveals the emergence of a world where law rooted in actual practices and customs of communities is replaced by law determined by officials, where juries no longer strive to speak the truth but to ascertain the facts.
The "mixed jury" doctrine allowed resident foreigners to have law suits against English natives tried before juries composed half of natives and half of aliens like themselves. As she traces the transformations in this doctrine from the Middle Ages to its abolition in 1870, Constable also reveals the emergence of a world where law rooted in actual practices and customs of communities is replaced by law determined by officials, where juries no longer strive to speak the truth but to ascertain the facts.
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