TY - JOUR
AU - Ford, Laura
AB - This essay responds to three reviews of my book (The Intellectual Property of Nations), by Damon Mayrl, Meredith Hall, and Danielle Lucksted & Nicholas Hoover Wilson. In responding to these reviews I reflect on the extent to which reviews are intellectual gifts, stimulating new lines of inquiry. Building from fruitful suggestions in the reviews by Mayrl and Hall, and linking these to new sites of interest for me in the U.S. legal tradition, I trace the extent to which early forms of U.S. sociology were embedded in an extended series of “restatements” of U.S. common law, focusing particularly on the “sociological jurisprudence” of Roscoe Pound. Responding to Lucksted & Wilson’s proposal for a Bourdieusian counter-narrative to the one I offered in my book, I very briefly sketch my reasons for preferring a Weberian approach. Lucksted & Wilson claim that my approach is consensualist, but I argue that the more important difference is over the ways that sociological theories account (or not) for human purposiveness in law.
TI - Conflict, Consensus, and Gift Exchange: Reflections on Three Generous Reviews
JF - The American Sociologist
DO - 10.1007/s12108-023-09583-2
DA - 2023-06-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/springer-journals/conflict-consensus-and-gift-exchange-reflections-on-three-generous-ToENrl4XPu
SP - 251
EP - 269
VL - 54
IS - 2
DP - DeepDyve
ER -