Cricket and the law : the man in white is always right / / David Fraser

• Autore: Fraser David <1953, >
• Pubblicazione: London : , : Routledge, , 2005
• Edizione: 2nd ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (442 p.)
• Disciplina: 796.358
• Soggetto topico: Cricket - Social aspects; Cricket; Sociological jurisprudence
• Note generali: Previous ed.: Sydney : Institute of Criminology, Sydney University Law School, 1993.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Book Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Series editor's preface; Preface; Foreword; 1. Introduction; 2. The legal theory of cricket; 3. Lord Denning, cricket, law and the meaning of life; 4. Dante, cricket, law and the meaning of life; 5. Laws, not rules or cricket as adjudication; 6. Law, codes and the spirit of the game; 7. More law and the spirit of the game; 8. The man in white is always right: umpires, judges and the rule of law; 9. Umpires, decisions and the rule of law; 10. The man in white is always right (but he is not always neutral); 11. Technology, adjudication and law ; 12. Leg before wicket, causation and the rule of law13. Mankad, Javed, Hilditch, Sarfraz and the rule of law; 14. It's not cricket: underarm bowling, legality and the meaning of life; 15. The chucker as outlaw-legality, morality and exclusion in cricket; 16. Murali, Shoaib and the jurisprudence of chucking; 17. Bouncers: terror and the rule of law in cricket; 18. Ball-tampering and the rule of law; 19. The little master, ball-tampering and the rule of law; 20. Delay and over-rates: temporality and the meaning of cricket; 21. Ethical discourse, legal narrative and the meaning of cricket ; 22. You...-sledging and cricket as ethical discourse23. Walking, the judicial function and the meaning of law; 24. Other stories about cricket, law and the meaning of life; 25. Capitalism and the meaning of cricket; 26. Class struggle, old school tie and the meaning of cricket; 27. The Hill, the members and others: the crowd as sub-text; 28. Bodyline, postmodernism, law and the meaning of life; 29. Conclusion: on life, law and cricket; Notes; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Cricket, law and the meaning of life ...In a readable, informed and absorbing discussion of cricket's defining controversies - bodyline, chucking, ball-tampering, sledging, walking and the use of technology, among many others - David Fraser explores the ambiguities of law and social order in cricket. Cricket and the Law charts the interrelationship between cricket and legal theory - between the law of the game and the law of our lives - and demonstrates how cricket's cultural conventions can escape the confines of the game to carry far b
• Titolo autorizzato: Cricket and the law
• ISBN: 0-86758-696-6; 1-135-77337-8; 1-135-77338-6; 1-280-23607-8; 9786610236077; 0-203-48594-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910821882303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Routledge studies in law, society, and popular culture.