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Examines the institutions, history, and practices of modern law, including the contradictions of liberal law, its co-emergence with narratives of “the primitive” and “the civilized”, its relationship to Christianity and science, and its most pervasive myths and cultural assumptions. No prior knowledge of law is required.
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