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'Studies in legal pluralism and in law and popular culture have kept a wary distance from each other - worried perhaps that, like matter and anti-matter, they could not survive the encounter. But Wendy Adams has blown them up, showing what happens if you take them both seriously. She unpacks the unspoken assumptions and necessary implications of a body of work led by Rod Macdonald, and behind him Robert Cover. Neither could be said to be shrinking violets, but Adams has expounded a theory of legal consciousness and identity far more uncompromising. While critics from these different fields will find much to argue with, all will now have to take account of Adams' ambitious argument and its radical and confronting conclusions.' Desmond Manderson, Australian National University

'Studies in legal pluralism and in law and popular culture have kept a wary distance from each other - worried perhaps that, like matter and anti-matter, they could not survive the encounter. But Wendy Adams has blown them up, showing what happens if you take them both seriously. She unpacks the unspoken assumptions and necessary implications of a body of work led by Rod Macdonald, and behind him Robert Cover. Neither could be said to be shrinking violets, but Adams has expounded a theory of legal consciousness and identity far more uncompromising. While critics from these different fields will find much to argue with, all will now have to take account of Adams' ambitious argument and its radical and confronting conclusions.' Desmond Manderson, Australian National University

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Wendy A. Adams is Associate Professor of Law, McGill University, Canada. Her research interests are in the areas of legal pluralism, law and popular culture, and animal studies. She has published on these and related topics.

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