Foucault and Law: Towards a Sociology of Law As Governance (Law and Social Theory)

Foucault and Law: Towards a Sociology of Law As Governance (Law and Social Theory) by Hunt, Alan. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780745308425.

When he died in 1984, Michel Foucault was regarded as one of the most profoundly influential philosophers of his day. Although the law itself never formed a central focus for Foucault, many of the principal themes in his writings are concerned with issues of governance and power that are of direct relevance to the study of law. And yet, until now, Foucaults work has attracted only fleeting attention from the legal academy. Foucault and Law corrects this oversight. Opening with a lucid, critical and unpretentious account of Foucaults work, Hunt and Wickham map out a terrain of methodological and theoretical principals, providing the groundwork for a new sociology of law as governance.