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Science, Technology, Society, and Law
Law and regulation increasingly interact with science, technology, and medicine in contemporary society. Law and social science (LSS) analyses can therefore benefit from rigorous, nuanced social scientific accounts of the nature of scientific knowledge and practice. Over the past two decades, LSS scholars have increasingly turned for such accounts to the field known as science and technology studies (STS). This article reviews the LSS literature that draws on STS. Our discussion is divided into two primary sections. We first discuss LSS literature that draws on STS because it deals with issues in which law and science interact. We then discuss literature that draws on STS because it sees law as analogous to science as a knowledge-producing institution amenable to social science analysis. We suggest that through both of these avenues STS can encourage a newly critical view within LSS scholarship.</jats:p
How Do Forensic Practitioners Report Pattern Recognition Results in the United States?
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Toxic Narratives, Toxic Communities and the Administrative Violence of Environmental Enforcement
Professor Alyse Bertenthal from the Wake Forest University School of Law presented her work Toxic Narratives, Toxic Communities and the Administrative Violence of Environmental Enforcement. This paper explores the concept of administrative violence in the enforcement of environmental laws, revealing how marginalized communities continue to bear the brunt of environmental harms due to systemic bureaucratic norms, despite policy reforms.https://ecollections.law.fiu.edu/faculty-workshops/1073/thumbnail.jp
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(Un)Natural Law: Environmental Governance in the Owens Valley, California
This dissertation examines the emergent forms and techniques of environmental governance as they unfold in the Owens Valley, California. Drawing from ethnographic and historical research, the dissertation asks how law addresses issues of conservation and sustainability, and also how interlocking human and natural communities are to be organized and controlled. Bringing together studies of governance with sociolegal studies, the dissertation goes beyond the boundaries of a single discipline to present a wide array of possibilities for understanding law’s conceptualization, interpretation, and practice. Three substantive chapters trace the confluence of environmental law, environmental conflict, and the environment-centered perspectives, practices, and promises prevalent in everyday life. Examining the interstices and intersections between these reveals the ways in which law shapes not only the processes and power of regulation, but also the very subject of that regulation: the environment itself. By uncovering those processes, this dissertation challenges the pervasive idea that governance over the environment can be disentangled from governance over people and things. The dissertation thus offers new insights into doctrinal and policy disputes in environmental law and proposes a significant alternative to the hyper-technical, formalistic, and economic approaches that dominate the study of environmental regulation
(Un)Natural Law: Environmental Governance in the Owens Valley, California
This dissertation examines the emergent forms and techniques of environmental governance as they unfold in the Owens Valley, California. Drawing from ethnographic and historical research, the dissertation asks how law addresses issues of conservation and sustainability, and also how interlocking human and natural communities are to be organized and controlled. Bringing together studies of governance with sociolegal studies, the dissertation goes beyond the boundaries of a single discipline to present a wide array of possibilities for understanding law’s conceptualization, interpretation, and practice. Three substantive chapters trace the confluence of environmental law, environmental conflict, and the environment-centered perspectives, practices, and promises prevalent in everyday life. Examining the interstices and intersections between these reveals the ways in which law shapes not only the processes and power of regulation, but also the very subject of that regulation: the environment itself. By uncovering those processes, this dissertation challenges the pervasive idea that governance over the environment can be disentangled from governance over people and things. The dissertation thus offers new insights into doctrinal and policy disputes in environmental law and proposes a significant alternative to the hyper-technical, formalistic, and economic approaches that dominate the study of environmental regulation
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Law's artefacts: Personal rapid transit and public narratives of hitchhiking and crime.
The West Virginia University (WVU) Personal Rapid Transit (PRT) system was built between 1971 and 1975 in Morgantown, West Virginia to be a prototype transportation system of the future. Envisioned as a hybrid of public and automotive transportation, the fully automated cars deliver passengers directly to their destinations without stopping at intervening stations. The PRT concept may be familiar to STS scholars through Latour's study of Aramis, a PRT in Paris that was never completed. This article recounts a history with the opposite ending: the successful realization of a PRT in West Virginia. Our account supplements existing ones, which explain the construction of the WVUPRT primarily as the product of geography and politics. While not denying these factors, we carve out an explanatory role for another influence: a public narrative about the dangers of hitchhiking and crimes that might ensue from that practice. In weaving together that narrative with the history of the WVUPRT, we show how public narratives of crime authorize technological infrastructure
How Do Forensic Practitioners Report Pattern Recognition Results in the United States?
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