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The cultural study of law is the first full examination of what it means to conduct a modern intellectual inquiry into the culture of law paul kahn outlines the tools necessary for such an inquiry by analyzing the concepts of time space citizen judge sovereignty and theory within the culture of laws rule. The cultural study of law is the first full examination of what it means to conduct a modern intellectual inquiry into the culture of law to conduct a genuine study of our legal culture we must step outside the boundaries of legal practice forgo the ambition of reform and instead interpret the founding myths and necessary beliefs that . The cultural study of law is the first full examination of what it means to conduct a modern intellectual inquiry into the culture of law paul kahn outlines the tools necessary for such an inquiry by analyzing the concepts of time space citizen judge sovereignt belief in the rule of law characterizes our society our political order and . Belief in the rule of law characterizes our society our political order and even our identity as citizens the cultural study of law is the first full examination of what it means to conduct a modern intellectual inquiry into the culture of law paul kahn outlines the tools necessary for such an inquiry by analyzing the concepts of time space citizen judge sovereignty and theory within . The cultural study of law reconstructing legal scholarship paul w kahn chicago university of chicago press 1999 169 pp