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Professor John Brigham publishes "Material Law: A Jurisprudence of What's Real"

Faculty News

2009-09-05

In Material Law, John Brigham focuses on the places where law and material life intersect, and how law creates and alters our social reality. Brigham looks at a variety of bodies and things-- from maps and territories and trends in courthouse architecture to a woman's womb and a judge body-- to make connections between the material and the legal.  Robert L. Tsai, author of Eloquence and Reason: Creating a First Amendment Culture has praised, "From one of our most astute observers of the law's many constitutive dimensions, Material Law is part biography, part theory. Brigham takes readers on an engaging tour of law's domains."

Available from Temple University Press at www.temple.edu/tempress