Preface
| Author | Austin Sarat,David Garland,Kim Scheppele |
| DOI | 10.1177/096466399400300101 |
| Published date | 01 March 1994 |
| Date | 01 March 1994 |
| Subject Matter | Articles |
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PREFACE
NTERDISCIPLINARY
LEGAL
scholarship
is
today
a
lively,
international
field,
everywhere
engaged
with
the
most
important
issues in
social
theory
and
public
policy.
Yet
still
today,
training
and
education
in
this
thriving
field
is
parcelled
out
among
law
faculties
and
a
variety
of
academic
departments
in
the
social
sciences
and
humanities.
There
are
too
few
institutions
in
which
interdisciplinary
legal
scholarship
has
been
established
as
a
distinct
and
distinctive
presence
in
and
of
itself.
However,
for
the
last
two
decades
one
of
the
most
important
exceptions
to
this
fact
has
been
the
Jurisprudence
&
Social
Policy
Program
at
the
University
of
California
at
Berkeley.
There
a
distinguished
interdisciplinary
faculty
offers
its
own
PhD
and
has
put
forth
a
distinctive
conception
of
the
nature
and
purposes
of
interdisciplinary
legal
scholarship.
Since
its
founding
in
1977,
thirty
people
have
received
PhDs
in
Jurisprudence
&
Social
Policy,
and
the
Program
today
continues
to
attract
an
enormously
talented
group
of
students.
The
goal
of
this
Special
Issue
of
Social
Legal
Studies
is
to
bring
the
work
of
those
who
have
been
trained
in
JSP
to
the
attention
of
the
community
of
interdisciplinary
legal
scholars
around
the
world.
The
contribu-
tors
to
this
issue
demonstrate
the
significance
of
the
kind
of
interdisciplinary
training
provided
in
JSP
by
the
breadth
and
sophistication
of
their
work
and
demonstrate,
through
that
work,
the
importance
of
the
contribution
made
by
JSP.
We
are
grateful
to
the
editors
of
Social
Legal
Studies
for
the
opportunity
to
edit
this
issue,
to
the
contributors,
and
to
Philip
Selznick
for
his
Introduction.
Austin
Sarat
David
Garland
Kim
Scheppele
SOCIAL
&
LEGAL
STUDIES
(SAGE,
London,
Thousand
Oaks
and
New
Delhi),
Vol.
3
(1994),
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