%0 Journal Article
%T Law as Theory: Constitutive Thought in the Formation of (Legal) Practice
%A Peter Fitzpatrick
%J Socio-Legal Review
%D 2010
%I National Law School of India University
%X Typical but puzzling engagements with law in Jurisprudence and in civil religion are drawn upon to evoke a dimension of law essential to its practice, a dimension relegated in usual conceptions of law. That dimension entails a responsive regard for whatever is found also to be the generative force of theory, whether legal or social theory. Law in its practical guise is thence found to have a constituent correspondence to theory. Legal practice can no more escape theory than theory can escape practice.
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