Cricket and the Law: The Man in White is Always Right

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Routledge, 2004 - Law - 460 pages

This is a revised edition of a quirky text which was first published by a small Australian publishing house, and which has been extremely positively reviewed.

The author is an aficionado and a scholar. His text is thoroughly well informed and is written in a highly engaging style.

The author, David Fraser, is Professor of Law and Social Theory and is extremely well known in his field, particularly for his work in law and popular culture, hate crime and social justice, and the jurisprudence of the holocaust.

David Fraser is well known internationally. He studied at Yale, and has taught in Canada (Dalhousie and University of British Columbia), the United States (SUNY Buffalo, Cardozo and University of Texas), and Australia (Sydney)

In 2003, David Fraser was the Charles H. Revson Foundation Fellow at the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC.

This text will make a valuable contribution to legal and social theory.

The text will be very enthusiastically received by philosophers, cricket lovers, and lawyers. (Cricketers are often a very thoughtful set, with the highest rate of suicide of all sports players!). We can't comment on how many legal scholars also play cricket but with the emphasis on adherence to and understanding of the law of the game, there's a likely affinity.

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Contents

1 Introduction
1
2 The legal theory of cricket
14
3 Lord Denning cricket law and the meaning of life
20
4 Dante cricket law and the meaning of life
24
5 Laws not rules or cricket as adjudication
28
6 Law codes and the spirit of the game
37
7 More law and the spirit of the game
48
umpires judges and the rule of law
64
terror and the rule of law in cricket
186
18 Balltampering and the rule of law
200
19 The little master balltampering and the rule of law
238
temporality and the meaning of cricket
247
21 Ethical discourse legal narrative and the meaning of cricket
255
22 Yousledging and cricket as ethical discourse
258
23 Walking the judicial function and the meaning of law
273
24 Other stories about cricket law and the meaning of life
282

9 Umpires decisions and the rule of law
78
10 The man in white is always right but he is not always neutral
99
11 Technology adjudication and law
104
12 Leg before wicket causation and the rule of law
116
13 Mankad Javed Hilditch Sarfraz and the rule of law
124
underarm bowling legality and the meaning of life
138
15 The chucker as outlawlegality morality and exclusion in cricket
145
16 Murali Shoaib and the jurisprudence of chucking
152
25 Capitalism and the meaning of cricket
309
26 Class struggle old school tie and the meaning of cricket
317
the crowd as subtext
321
28 Bodyline postmodernism law and the meaning of life
330
on life law and cricket
335
Notes
337
Index
402
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