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The Challenge of the South

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 April 2024

John Brigham
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We make lots of things into texts these days (movies, conversation, dreams) in order to bring them into our discussions. The hope is that something is gained. Here we have a public speech that has become an essay. I hope we don't lose too much in treating it that way. In addressing the written text of Santos's “Three Metaphors …” (1995), I would like to recall the speech of which the text is a part. The speech took place in a large and fabulously ornate room in the Royal York Hotel in Toronto. It was a luncheon speech presented to gathered scholars who had, as I recall, just completed a chicken salad plate and run through a series of awards. The speech came near the end of the 1995 Annual Meeting of the Law and Society Association.

Type
Charting a Course for Sociolegal Scholarship: A Symposium
Information
Law & Society Review , Volume 29 , Issue 4 , 1995 , pp. 585 - 591
Copyright
Copyright © 1995 by The Law and Society Association

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Footnotes

The author thanks Christine Harrington for her help.

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