ADJUS-121 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Austin Sarat
26 Aug 2020
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Austin sarat the law is all over . That"s why they got lawyers , you see, to make up rules for them (352) Maria finds it difficult to make her rent payments, utilities payments, etc all at once. In the winter of 1988, she was having difficult paying her heating bill, so she went to a private assistance program for help. They asked her to get a letter from her caseworker certifying that she was a welfare recipient and the amount of her payments. But her caseworker refused to write the letter. The caseworker said the rule was that the assistance program was supposed to ask the care-worker directly. You don"t do that to nobody, treat them like a dog (367) Accounts of ordinary people (new jersey example) Legality is not sustained solely by the formal law, rather legality is enduring because it relies on and invokes commonplace schemas of everyday life.
