MADDENING LEGALITIES

Based on J. P. Linstroth's review article, "Maddening Legalities: Subjectivities and the Law", there is much to consider about the fecundity of interpreting varying legal domains and their social significance. As mentioned in the beginning understanding the subjectivities of terror suspects may help in counterterrorism measures; likewise analysing Palestinians from their subjective points of view may help in easing the regional conflict in Israel/Palestine. It is through analyses and comprehending subjectivities as part of socio-legal studies and legal anthropology, wherein the subjective person makes ethnography valuable. Both Donahue’s (2007) and Kelly’s (2006) ethnographies are therefore exemplar socio-legal studies for considering how the law may be ascertained and interpreted through what Aretxaga has termed the ‘subjective dynamics’ of law and society.