Legal life-writing

"Legal Life-Writing provides the first sustained treatment of the implications of life-writing on legal biography, autobiography and the visual history of law in society through a focus on neglected sources, and on those usually marginalized or ignored in legal biography and legal history, such as women and minorities. Draws on a range of sources and disciplinary approaches including legal history, life-writing, sociology, history, art history, feminism and post-colonialism, seeking to build a bridge-head between them Challenges the methodologies employed in conventional accounts of legal lives Aims to ignite debate about the nature of the relationship between socio-legal studies and legal history Aims to enlarge the fields of legal biography, legal history, history and socio-legal studies, and to foster a closer and more inter-disciplinary dialogue between these disciplines "-- "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