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SUSAN S. SILBEY | Publications

MONOGRAPHS AND EDITED BOOKS

2008   Susan S. Silbey (ed.), Law and Science (I): Epistemological, Evidentiary, and Relational Engagements. Aldershot, Hampshire: Ashgate Publishing Ltd.
2008   Susan S. Silbey (ed.) Law and Science (II): Regulation of Property, Practices, and Products. Aldershot, Hampshire: Ashgate Publishing Ltd.
2003
   Herbert Kritzer and Susan Silbey (eds), In Litigation: Do the 'Haves' Still Come Out Ahead?. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.
1998   Susan S. Silbey and Patricia Ewick, The Common Place of Law: Stories of Popular Legal Consciousness. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Awarded special recognition by American Sociological Association Sociology of Law Section, book prize competition, 2000. Chinese Translation.
1997   Silbey, Susan S. and Austin Sarat (eds.) Studies in Law Politics and Society, Volume 17. Greenwich CT: JAI Press Inc.
1996   Susan S. Silbey and Austin Sarat (eds.) Studies in Law, Politics and Society, Volume 16. Greenwich, CT: JAI Press, Inc.
1995   Austin Sarat and Susan S. Silbey (eds.) Studies in Law, Politics and Society, Volume 15. Greenwich, CT: JAI Press, Inc.
1994   Susan S. Silbey and Austin Sarat (eds.) Studies in Law, Politics and Society, Volume 14. Greenwich, CT: JAI Press, Inc.
1993   Austin Sarat and Susan S. Silbey (eds.) Studies in Law, Politics and Society, Volume 13, Greenwich, CT: JAI Press, Inc.
1992   Susan S. Silbey and Austin Sarat (eds.), Studies in Law, Politics and Society, Volume 12, "Trends and Opportunities in Disputing Research", Greenwich, CT: JAI Press, Inc.
1991   Austin Sarat and Susan S. Silbey (eds.) Studies in Law, Politics and Society, Volume 11, Greenwich, Ct: JAI Press, Inc.
1990   Susan S. Silbey and Austin Sarat, (eds.) Studies in Law, Politics and Society, Volume 10, Greenwich, Ct: JAI Press, Inc.

ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS

forthcoming   Susan S. Silbey, Ruthanne Huising, Salo Vincour Coslovsky, "The Sociological Citizen: Recognizing Relational Interdependence in Law and Organizations," Annee Sociologique.
forthcoming   Susan S. Silbey and Sophia Roosth, "Science and Technology Studies: From Controversies to Post-Humanist Social Theory" in Bryan S. Turner (ed.) Blackwell Companion to Social Theory, Oxford: Blackwell Publishers.
2008   Susan S. Silbey and Scott Barclay, "Understanding Regime Change: Public Opinion, Legitimacy, and Legal Consciousness," Oxford Handbook of Law and Politics, K. Whittington (ed.) New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 663-678 .
2007   Susan S. Silbey, "Talk of Law: Contested and Conventional Legality" DePaul Law Review, Volume 56, Number 2, pp. 639-660.
2005   Susan S. Silbey, "After Legal Consciousness," in Annual Review of Law and Social Science, Volume 1. December 2005, pp. 323-368.
2005   Susan S. Silbey and Ayn Cavicchi, "The Common Place of Law: Transforming Matters of Concern into the Objects of Everyday Life," in Making Things Public: Atmospheres of Democracy, Bruno Latour and Peter Weibel (eds.). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, pp. 556-563.
2005   Susan S. Silbey, "Everyday Life and The Constitution of Legality", Blackwell Companion to the Sociology of Culture, Jacobs and Hanrahan (eds.) Oxford: Blackwell Publishing.
2004   Susan S. Silbey, "The Dream of a Social Science: Supreme Court Forecasting, Legal Culture and the Public Sphere." Perspectives on Politics. Volume 2:785-793.
2004   Douglas Goodman and Susan S. Silbey , "Defending the Liberal Arts from Law," in Legal Scholarship in the Liberal Arts, Austin Sarat, editor. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.
2004   Susan S. Silbey and Carroll Seron, " Profession, Science, and Culture: An Emergent Canon of Law and Society Research." Blackwell Companion to Law and Society. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, pp. 30-59.
2004   Susan S. Silbey and Patricia Ewick, Liora Israel, Jerome Pelisse, "Law construction sociale de law legalite", terrians et travaux, cahiers du department de sciences sociales, Ecole Normale Superiere de Cachan, No. 6, pp. 112-128.
2003   Susan S. Silbey and Patricia Ewick, “The Architecture of Authority: The Place of Law in the Space of Science,” in Austin Sarat, Lawrence Douglas, Martha Umphrey (ed.s) The Place of Law. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, pp. 75-108.
2003   Susan S. Silbey and Patricia Ewick, "The Double Life of Reason and Law," University of Miami Law Review, Volume 57 No. 3, pp. 497-512.
2003
   Susan S. Silbey and Patricia Ewick, "Narrating Social Structure: Stories of Resistance to Legal Authority, " American Journal of Sociology. Vol. 108 Number 6 (May 2003), pp. 1328-1372. Awarded the American Sociological Association 2004 prize for best article in Sociology of Culture; 2004 prize for best article in Political Sociology; 2005 prize for best article in Sociology of Law.
2002   James Willis and Susan S. Silbey, "Self, Surveillance and Society," The Sociological Quarterly , Volume 43. No. 3 pp.439-445..
2002   Susan S. Silbey, "Law and Society Movement," Legal Systems of the World: A Political, Social and Cultural Encyclopedia, Herbert M. Kritzer, editor, ABC-CLIO
2002   Susan S. Silbey, "Law and Society Movement," The Oxford Companion to American Law, Kermit Hall, editor. Oxford University Press
2002   Susan S. Silbey, “Mutual Engagement: Sociology of Law and Criminology,” in Law, Crime and Social Change,"Volume 37:163-175, 2002.
2002   "The Emperor's New Clothes: Mediation Mythology and Markets," in Journal of Dispute Resolution, Volume 2002, Number 1, pp. 171-177.
2002   Susan S. Silbey and Patricia Ewick, “The Structure of Legality:The Cultural Contradictions of Social Institutions,” in Kagan, Kryger, and Winston, The Study of Legality: Essays in Honor of Philip Selznick. Berkeley: University of California Press (2002), pp. 149-165.
2001   Susan S. Silbey, “Legal Culture and Consciousness,” International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences. Amsterdam: Elsevier Science, Ltd. p. 8623- 8629.
2000   Susan S. Silbey and Patricia Ewick, “No Laughing Matter: Humor and Contradiction in Stories of Law,” Clifford Sympoisum, DePaul Law Review, Volume 50, winter 2000, Number 2, 559-574.
2000   Susan S. Silbey and Patricia Ewick, “The Rule of Law: Sacred and Profane,” Society, October 2000.
1999   Susan S. Silbey and Patricia Ewick, “Common Knowledge and Ideological Critique: The Importance of Knowing Why the ‘Haves’ Come Out Ahead,” Law & Society Review, Volume 33:4. 1025-1042.
1998   Susan S. Silbey, "Ideology, Power, and Justice", Justice and Power in Law and Society Research, eds. Bryant Garth, and Austin Sarat. Evanston: Northwestern University Press 1998, pp 272-308.
1998   Susan S. Silbey and Patricia Ewick, "A Case Study of Legal Consciousness," Droit et Culture, Volume 35, pp. 23-41.
1997   Susan S. Silbey and Patricia Ewick, “Devant la loi: la construction sociale du juridique" in Chantal Kourilsky-Augeven (ed.) Socialisation juridique et conscience du droit: attitudes individuelles, modeles culturels et changement social. Paris: MSH-LGDJ, and Droit et Societe, 1997, pp 33-56.
1997   Susan S. Silbey, "Let Them Eat Cake: Globalization, Postmodern Colonialism, and the Possibilities of Justice", 1996 Presidential Address, Law & Society Review, Volume 31, Number 2, pp.207-235. Reprinted in The Legal Geographies Reader, ed. Nicholas Blomley, David Delaney and Richard Ford, Blackwell Publishers, 2000.
1995   Patricia Ewick and Susan S. Silbey, "Subversive Stories and Hegemonic Tales: Toward A Sociology of Narrative", Law & Society Review, Volume 29, Number 2, p. 197-226.
1994   Susan S. Silbey, "Maigret's Law", Volume 14, Studies in Law, Politics and Society, Greenwich, CT: JAI Press Inc. p.43-68.
1994   Susan S. Silbey, "To Bring Out the Best ... To Undo a Little Pain: Patrick Davis and the Practice of Special Education Mediation", in Deborah Kolb, ed. When Talk Works: Profiles of Working Mediators. Jossey-Bass, Inc. p. 61-103.
1993   Susan S. Silbey, "Mediation Mythology", Negotiation Journal, October 1993, p. 349-353.
1992   Susan S. Silbey, "Making A Place for Cultural Analyses of Law", Law and Social Inquiry, Volume 17, Number 1, p. 39-48.
1992   Patricia Ewick and Susan S. Silbey, "Conformity, Contestation, and Resistance: An Account of Legal Consciousness", New England Law Review, "For Mary Joe Frug: A Symposium on Feminist Critical Legal Studies and PostModernism", Volume 26, Number 3, p. 731-749. Reprinted in Sociological Perspectives on Law: Contemporary Debates, Roger Cotterrell (the International Library of Essays in Law and Legal Theory, 2nd Series), Ashgate Publishing.
1991   Susan S. Silbey, "Loyalty and Betrayal: The Discovery and Reproduction of Legal Ideology", Law and Social Inquiry, Volume 16, Number 4, p. 809-833.
1991   Susan S. Silbey "Un jeu d'enfant: une analyse culturelle de la consscience juridique des adolescents americains" ("Child's Play: A Cultural Analysis of American Adolescents' Legal Consciousness"), Droit et Societe, no. 19, 1991, p. 243-257.
1990   Deborah Kolb and Susan S. Silbey, "Enhancing the Capacity of Organizations to Deal with Differences", Negotiation Journal, October 1990, p. 297-304.
1990   Susan S. Silbey, "On the Relationship of State Theory to Sociolegal Research: An Example from Minor Disputes Processing", in Susan S. Silbey and Austin Sarat (eds.) Studies in Law, Politics, and Society, Volume 10, 1990, p.67-75.
1989   Susan S. Silbey and Austin Sarat, "Reconstituting the Sociology of Law: Beyond Science and the State", in David Silverman and Jaber Gubrium (eds.), The Politics of Field Research: Beyond Enlightenment, Beverly Hills, CA: Sage Publications, 1989, p. 150-172.
1989   Yves Dezalay, Austin Sarat, and Susan S. Silbey, "D'une demarche contestaire a un savoir meritocratique" in Actes De La Recherches En Sciences Sociales, No. 78, June 1989, p. 79-93.
1989   Susan S. Silbey, "A Sociological Interpretation of the Relationship Between Law and Society" in Jon Neuhaus (ed.), Law and the Ordering of Our Life Together, Grand Rapids, Michigan: Erdmanns Press. p.1-27.
1989   Susan S. Silbey and Austin Sarat, "Dispute Processing in Law and Legal Scholarship: From Institutional Critique to the Reconstitution of the Juridical Subject", University of Denver Law Review, Volume 66, No.3, p. 437-498. Reprinted in Michael Freeman, (ed.) Alternative Dispute Resolution, a volume of the International Library of Essays in Law and Legal Theory. Published as a working paper, Series 8:9, Disputes Processing Research Program, Institute for Legal Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Law School, 1988.Book Prize, from CPR (Center for Public Resources) for Excellence and Innovation in Alternative Dispute Resolution, for "Quality of Dispute Resolution Symposium Issue", 66 Denver Law Review (1989).
1988   Austin Sarat and Susan S. Silbey, "The Pull of the Policy Audience", Law & Policy, Volume 10, Nos. 2 & 3, April/July 1988, p. 97-166.
1987   Susan S. Silbey and Austin Sarat, "Critical Traditions in Law and Society Research", Law & Society Review, Volume 21, No. l., 1987, p. 165-174. Reprinted in Lloyd, Introduction to Jurisprudence, 6th edition, Sweet and Maxwell Publishers.
1986   Susan S. Silbey and Sally E. Merry, "Mediator Settlement Strategies", Law & Policy, Volume 8, No. 1, January 1986, p. 7-32. Reprinted in Processes of Dispute Resolution: The Role of Lawyers, Sherman, Murray and Rau (eds.). Westbury, NY: Foundation Press, 1989. Reprinted in Mediation: theory, Policy and Practice, Carried Menkel Meadow, Ashgate Publishers, 2000.Reprinted in Materials on Mediation Theory and Practice, Sharon P. Press, Jean R. Sternlight, and Joseph B. Stulberg, Lexis Publishing, 2001.
1985   Susan S. Silbey, "Ideals and Practices in the Study of Law", Legal Studies Forum, Volume IX, No. 1, 1985, p. 7-22
1984   Sally E. Merry and Susan S. Silbey, "What Do Plaintiffs Want? Reexamining the Concept of Dispute", Justice System Journal, Volume 9/2, Summer 1984, p. 151-178. Reprinted in Dispute Resolution and Lawyers, Leonard Riskin and James Westbrook (eds.). Minneapolis: West Publishing Co., 1987.
1984   Susan S. Silbey, "Who Speaks for the Consumer?", American Bar Foundation Research Journal, 1984, No. 2, p. 429-457. Reprinted in Consumer Law, International Library of Essays in Law and Legal Theory, New York: New York University Press, 1992.
1984   Susan S. Silbey, "The Consequences of Responsive Regulation", in J. Thomas and K. Hawkins (eds.) Enforcing Regulation, Boston, The Hague and London: Kluwer Nijhof, 1984, p. 147-170.
1982   Susan S. Silbey and Egon Bittner, "The Availability of Law", Law and Policy Quarterly, Volume 4/4, October 1982, p. 399-434.
1981   Susan S. Silbey, "Case Processing: Consumer Protection in an Attorney General's Office", Law & Society Review, Volume 15: 3-4, September 1981, p. 849-881.
1981   Susan S. Silbey, "Making Sense of the Lower Courts" Justice System Journal, Volume 6/1, Spring 1981, p. 13-27.

BOOK REVIEWS

2001   Minding the Law: how courts rely on storytelling, and how their stories change the ways we understand the law - and ourselves by Anthony G. Amstedam and Jerome Bruner in American Journal of Sociology, July 2001.
1999   Cultural Software: A Theory of Ideology by J.M. Balkin, in American Journal of Sociology, July 1999 (105:1) pp. 252-254.
1996   Law in the Sociological Enterprise: A Reconstruction, by Lisa J. McIntyre, in Contemporary Sociology, May 1996, p. 386-388.
1991   Rules Versus Relationships, by John M. Conley and William M. O'Barr, in Contemporary Sociology, June 1991.
1987   The Civil Justice Process, by Matthew Silberman, in Contemporary Sociology, Volume 16, No. 1, January 1987, p. 100.
1984   Urban Elites and Mass Transportation: The Dialectics of Power, by J. Allen Whitt, in Sociology and Social Research, Volume 63, No. 3, 1984.
1984   "I Respectfully Disagree With the Judge's Order", by J. Michael Ross and William M. Berg, in Qualitative Sociology, Volume 7, No. 1&2, 1984, p.184.
1984   The Limits of Law Enforcement, by Hans Zeisel, in The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, May 1984.

OTHER PUBLICATIONS

2008   "Legal Consciousness" New Oxford Companion to Law, Oxford University Press.
2006   "Globalization," "Ideology," "Law and Society," "Legitimacy," "Philip Selznick," "Science and Technology Studies," The Cambridge Dictionary of Sociology, eds. Bryan S. Turner, Cambridge University Press.
2005   "Narrative Story Telling" Encyclopedia of Law and Society American and Global Perspectives, Sage Publications.
2005   "Under the Microscope," an interview of Susan S. Silbey by James Curtis, in EHS News & Views, Volume 04, No 2, July 2005, MIT Cambridge, MA.
2004   "Going Where Theory Leads," Perspectives, Newsletter of the ASA theory Section, Volume 27, number 2, April 2004.
2004   Susan S. Silbey, "Designing Qualitative Research," prepared for National Science Foundation workshop on qualitative sociology, July 2003.
2000   Judith E. Scott and Susan S. Silbey, Turning an Internship into a Research Opportunity, Wellesley College, Center for Work and Service, 2000.
1998   “Sacred and Profane,” Chairperson’s Column, Amici, Newsletter of the Sociology of Law Section, American Sociological Association, November 1998.
1996   "Post-Modern Colonialism, A Rebuttal," President's Column, Newsletter, Law and Society Association, May 1996.
1995   "Postmodern Colonialism," President's Column, Newsletter, Law and Society Association, November 1995.
1995   "Reproducing Socio-Legal Scholarship Through Teaching," Newsletter, Law and Society Association, August 1995.
1995   Susan S. Silbey, "The Litigants' Perspective on Civil Justice", in Prospects for Civil Justice, Ontario Law Reform Commission, 1995, p. 259-272.
1995   "Before the Law: Reification of Legal Institutions" in Legal Culture: Encounters and Transformations, The Proceedings of the 1995 Annual Meeting of the Research Committee on Sociology of Law, International Sociological Association, The University of Tokyo, 1995.
1995   Susan S. Silbey, "Some Reflections on Power and Professor Webster", a supplementary note for use with the case, "The Section Just Took Over", No 379-007, Harvard Business School, Publishing Division, N9-395-181.
1993   Susan S. Silbey, Patricia Ewick, Elizabeth Schuster, and Lisa Kaunelis, Differential Use of Courts by Minority and Non-Minority Populations in New Jersey. Trenton, New Jersey: New Jersey Judiciary, Supreme Court Task Force on Minority Concerns.
1989   Report of the Task Force on Racism, Wellesley College.
1988   “Connecting Collegiate and pre-Collegiate Learning about Law,” in Focus on Legal Studies, Spring 1988, volume III, Number 2.
1979   Susan S. Silbey, What the Lower Courts Do: The Work and Role of Courts of Limited Jurisdiction, Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Justice, Office for Improvements in the Administration of Justice, Council on the Role of Courts.
 2002   "Globalization and the Narrative of Modernity."

WORKS IN PROGRESS

    James Willis and Susan Silbey, "Self, Surveillance and Society."
    Douglas Goodman and Susan Siilbey, "Defending the Liberal Arts Against Law."

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