Law in Politics: Struggles over Property and Public Space on New York City's Lower East Side |
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| Authors: | John Brigham Diana R. Gordon |
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| Affiliation: | John Brigham;is a professor of political science at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Diana R. Gordon;is a professor of political science at the City College, City University of New York. This research was presented to the Law and Society Colloquium Series at New York University, 13 April 1992, and the Law and Society Association meeting in Berkeley, Cal., June 1990. The authors thank Christine B. Harrington and Martin Shapiro for their comments and dedicate this article to the memory of David Gordon. |
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| Abstract: | This article examines politics on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, New York City, for evidence of law at the constitutive level. We see legal relations shaping grassroots struggles over public space and housing as forums, claims, and political positions. This view challenges instrumental conceptions of law still prominent in some social-scientific approaches. |
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