...[W]hat is done in the name of the law is constrained by a world of its own creation."123 In our view, scholarship on law in everyday life should abandon...removed from law, or at least not dominated by law from the outset. As Silbey puts it, "[L]aw is located in concrete and particular circumstances where...

...Sarat and Kearns propose is that the law-first perspective be abandoned, and that legal scholarship "proceed paradoxically, with its eye not on law, but...events or practices that seem on the face of things, far removed from law" ( 1993: 55). This proposal constitutes a major moment in the reconstitution of...

...emergent feature of social life requires that we shift our empirical focus away from law to "events and practices that seem on the face of things, removed from law, or at least not dominated by law from the outset."" The necessity of this shift in focus has certain methodological implications, that...

...Levine and Mellema 2001 ). Many scholars have followed Sarat and Kearns in focusing study on those "events or practices that seem on the face of things, removed from law," leaving it for more in-depth analysis to determine whether law figures prominently into particular...