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20 Law Text Culture 1 (2016)
Lives Lived with Law: An Introduction

handle is hein.journals/lwtexcu20 and id is 5 raw text is: Lives Lived with Law: An Introduction Ann Genovese, Shaun McVeigh and Peter D Rush* 1 bio-graphy with law and humanities This collection of essays for Law Text Culture is a collaboration and meditation on methods and genres of life writing, and how they might be adequate to the task of taking responsibility for legal thought and lawful relations as lived in Australia today. In many ways, these essays, and what they represent together, could be described as Legal Biographies. For a very long time, Legal Biographies have been written to animate the study of the common law and its institutions through lives of jurists and judges. In our own time, writers and scholars have reanimated the genre of legal biography in several different ways. For example: to record the public engagements of legal lives (AJ Brown (2011) on Justice Kirby, Michael Pelly (2014) onJustice Gleeson); to explore and complicate the role and purpose of legal institutions (Roberts 2014; Wheeler 2011); to understand the development and performance of legal thought (Goodrich 2013; Lacey 2004; Rundle 2009); and to draw institutions into relationships and recognition of the way legal lives speak official and marginal histories (Mulcahy & Sugarman 2015).' What we would like to emphasise as editors of this special issue - as well as collaborators on the articulation of a set of activities we call jurisography - is how Legal Biographies projects might also be thought of as projects of Law Text Culture Vol 20 2016 1

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