Knowledge and Power in Science and Law

Harvard HLS

Prerequisite: No prerequisite Exam Type: No Exam Evaluation is a final take home essay. How do ideas about law and science shape the contours of the contemporary world? Knowledge underwrites legal authority – but how exactly? How do ideas about what is natural, right or ordained become powerful, hegemonic? Both law and science rely on experts to define the basic coordinates by which we locate ourselves and recognize each other, as members of collectives, actors in institutions,…