The Presence of Absence: Everyday Conditions of Practicing Law

29 Pages Posted: 22 Apr 2008

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Matilda Arvidsson

University of Gothenburg - Department of Law

Abstract

The article is an auto-ethnographical account of the practice law in the mundane everyday life at Lund District Court, Sweden. The focus is on the spatial and organizational every day conditions of practicing law in the office space. It researches the practice of law, in the office part of the court, as a human practice in a constant call between de-contamination from personal identity and a re-call of that lost subjectivity as the judge is turning words into law by signing the document by hand, with his own name, and in his own personal hand writing.

Keywords: ethnography of law, court culture, legal culture, organization, architecture, office culture, office space, judicial culture, identity, signature, professional culture

Suggested Citation

Arvidsson, Matilda, The Presence of Absence: Everyday Conditions of Practicing Law. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1122806 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1122806

Matilda Arvidsson (Contact Author)

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