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1 Law, Culture & Human. 1 (2005)

handle is hein.journals/lculh1 and id is 1 raw text is: Law, Culture and the Humanities 2005; 1: 1 EDITORIAL The first issue of Law, Culture and the Humanities fulfils a vision and initiates a publishing venture in which many have a stake. The vision foresees the development of a field of interdisciplinary legal scholarship that draws colleagues from the humanities and cultural studies, from inside and outside law schools, into a conversation about law. LCH is the realization of a hope first articulated with the establishment of the Association for the Study of Law, Culture and the Humanities. It is proudly the journal of that Association. The work published here highlights an understanding of law as a complex interpretive and cultural phenomenon, rooted in distinctive historical and social circumstances. It represents another significant step toward the creation of an intellectual home for an integrated conception of legal study, one that examines what happens when moral argument, interpretive traditions, cultural artefacts, embodied beings, state and non-state institu- tions, national traditions and emergent global forces combine and collide. LCH will publish the best scholarship from many nations and bridge the generations, laying side by side the work of our most established scholars and of those newer to the field. We intend to present a range of theories and approaches and to draw into dialogue kinds of scholarship normally not found in the same journal. In addition, in each issue LCH will publish commentaries on a theme of importance to our field, along with articles and book reviews. For this issue, we chose the theme of Interrogating Culture to inaugurate our commentary section. I gratefully acknowledge many in the Association for the Study of Law, Culture and the Humanities who have helped get the journal to this point. I also want to thank the Socio-Legal Research Centre at Griffith University and Amherst College, which are co-sponsoring LCH. Their enthusiasm and financial help have been indispensable. Special thanks are due Gina and Ian Mausner (Amherst College Class of 1982), Jack Chester ('42), Bill Falsgraf ('55) and Judy and Howard Roin ('75) for believing in, and generously supporting, LCH. We are graced with an extraordinary group of Associate Editors and a distinguished Editorial Advisory Board. From the start LCH has been a genuinely collaborative effort. Thanks to the hard working Associate Editors, Keith Bybee, Marianne Constable, Peter Fitzpatrick, William MacNeil, Karl Shoemaker, and Martha Umphrey. Many in the field have already contributed through their work as reviewers of manuscripts. I am grateful to them. Thanks also to Hodder Arnold for its wonderful reception of LCH and the high spirit with which our editorial labors have been received. I invite all of you to regard LCH as your journal, to send me your ideas and your work. I am honored by the opportunity to edit this journal and keenly aware of the opportunities that are open to us. So, we begin. Austin Sarat C) Association for the Study ofLaw, Culture and the Humanities 2005 10.1 19111743872105lwOl led

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