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Tuning to a Key of Gladness

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 April 2024

Carol J. Greenhouse
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Abstract

The author reflects on the significance of violence (the theme of the 1997 Law and Society Association's annual meeting) for sociolegal scholars, considering the changing landscapes of law and difference, especially in the contemporary United States, as well as issues of vocation and agency.

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1997 Presidential Address
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Law & Society Review , Volume 32 , Issue 1 , 1998 , pp. 5 - 21
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Copyright © The Law and Society Association, 1998. All Rights Reserved

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Footnotes

The text presented here is a slightly revised version of the Law and Society Association's Presidential Address, delivered (as is traditional) at a plenary luncheon session of the Association's 1997 annual meeting in St. Louis, Missouri. An address of this sort is a performance of acknowledgment, and I have tried to indicate in the notes and references some of the range and sources of my debts. I am especially grateful to Susan Williams, Fred Aman, Judith Allen, Paula Girshick, Beth Mertz, and Beverly Stoeltje for conversations that helped me focus my thinking about collegiality as a form of agency as I prepared for this event.

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