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The presence of absence : everyday conditions of practicing law

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Author

  • Matilda Arvidsson

Summary, in English

The article is an auto-ethnographical account of the practice law in the mundane everyday life at Lund District Court, Sweden. The focus is on the spatial and organizational every day conditions of practicing law in the office space. It researches the practice of law, in the office part of the court, as a human practice in a constant call between de-contamination from personal identity and a re-call of that lost subjectivity as the judge is turning words into law by signing the document by hand, with his own name, and in his own personal hand writing.

Department/s

Publishing year

2007

Language

English

Pages

3-30

Publication/Series

Från Schlyters lustgård: rättshistoriska uppsatser

Issue

7

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Corpus iuris

Topic

  • Law

Keywords

  • legal culture
  • court culture
  • rättsvetenskap
  • organization
  • architecture
  • office culture
  • office space
  • judicial culture
  • law
  • identity
  • signature
  • professional culture
  • ethnography

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 1651-6095