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legal knowledge  

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  • Legal knowledge refers to the ensemble of forms of knowing, theorizing, judging, analyzing, and reflecting that constitute the practices of legal actors. The study of legal knowledge treats all of these practices, and all of the “knowledge work” of different categories of legal actors, from police officers, ordinary litigants, and expert witnesses to judges, on the same plane, as one field of social action. [Source: Encyclopedia of Law & Society: American and Global Perspectives; Knowledge, Legal]

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