The Law Is a White Dog: How Legal Rituals Make and Unmake Persons
by Colin Dayan
A study of how legal rituals create, maintain, and revoke personhood, revealing the deep ties between law and identity.
About This Book
The Law Is a White Dog examines the ways legal practices define and redefine what it means to be a person.
Colin Dayan investigates rituals of law that grant or strip personhood across different contexts.
The book draws on historical and contemporary examples to show the impact of legal procedures.
Readers gain insight into the relationship between law, identity, and social order.
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