Manners of Imagining the real |
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| Authors: | Kim Lane Scheppele |
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| Institution: | Kim Lane Scheppele is Arthur F. Thurnau Associate Professor of Political Science and Public Policy and Adjunct Associate Professor of Law at the University of Michigan. She is currently studying the Hungarian Constitutional Court under a National Science Foundation grant. The author thanks members of the Comparative Studies in Social Transformation Seminar at the University of Michigan, where this paper was first presented, and she also thanks her co-teacher Sally Humphreys and students in "Legal Stories and Legal Institutions" at the Michigan Law School for inspiration. |
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| Abstract: | What counts as evidence? What is accepted as true in court given the evidence admitted? How are subordinated peoples further oppressed in courts because they cannot demonstrate that their experience is fact? Drawing on the confirmation brings for Clarence Thomas as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court and the testimony of Anita Hill in those hearings, the author explores the ways in which representations of sexual violence against women can be seen as not “real.” |
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