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Law, Democracy, and Domination: Law and Society Research as Critical Scholarship

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 April 2024

Robert L. Nelson
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It is an instructive irony that Frank Munger delivered his Presidential Address in Miami Beach. As someone who was there on Memorial Day weekend of 2000, I can report that at the time of the address there was more than the usual contrast between setting and substance. Munger issued his call for connecting law and society research to the real world of struggle and politics in the cool, windowless expanse of a plush convention-hotel ballroom. The response of the audience was polite, if not inspired. In sharp contrast, immediately outside the hotel, the hot and humid streets of South Beach buzzed and blared with a Hip Hop convention that had drawn masses of young people from around the country. This was an audience that really was turned on to the message of its leaders.

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Presidential Address
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Law & Society Review , Volume 35 , Issue 1 , 2001 , pp. 33 - 37
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Copyright © 2000 by the Law and Society Association

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