Legal Life-Writing
Mulcahy, Linda / Sugarman, David
Legal biography and autobiography is skewed to the elite--a group overwhelmingly represented by white, male judges and barristers. It also tends to utilize a limited range of sources and has failed to engage with the "life-writing" movement, which goes beyond biography and embraces the lives of objects and institutions as well as the lives of individuals, families and groups. As a paradigm corrective, Legal Life-Writing provides the firstsusta...