Lawyers in a Postmodern World: Translation and Transgression

Abstract

Part 1 Understanding lawyering: the symbol traders outlining a theory of legal practice. Part 2 Constituting capital and the state: legal creativity capital fractionalized blurred boundaries - the overlapping world of law, business and politics lawyers as constitutive of gender relations the forum should fit the fuse - the economics and politics of negotiated justice. Part 3 Towards prefigurative legal practices: miners and lawyers feminist legal scholarship and women's gendered lives paralegals and prefiguration - working in black townships towards a post-apartheid South Africa the contradictions of radical law practice.