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

Fraser, David, 1953-

Cricket and the law : the man in white is always right / David Fraser. - xvi, 438 pages ; 24 cm. - Routledge studies in law, society and popular culture . - Routledge studies in law, society, and popular culture. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- The Legal Theory of Cricket -- Lord Denning, Cricket, Law and the Meaning of Life -- Dante, Cricket, Law and the Meaning of Life -- Laws, not Rules or Cricket as Adjudication -- Law, Codes and the Spirit of the Game -- More Law and the Spirit of the Game -- The Man in White is Always Right: Umpires, Judges and the Rule of Law-- Umpires, Decisions and the Rule of Law -- The Man in White is Always Right (but he is not always neutral) -- Technology, Adjudication and Law -- Leg Before Wicket, Causation and the Rule of Law -- Mankad, Javed, Hilditch, Sarfraz and the Rule of the Law -- Its Not Cricket: Underarm Bowling, Legality and the Meaning of Life -- The Chucker as outlaw: Legality, Morality and Exclusion in Cricket -- Murali, Shoaib and the Jurisprudence of Chucking -- Bouncers: Terror and the Rule of Law in Cricket -- Ball-tampering and the Rule of Law -- The Little Master: Ball-tampering and the Rule of Law -- Delay and Over-Rates: Temporality and the Meaning of Cricket -- Ethical Discourse, Legal Narrative and the Meaning of Cricket -- You. Sledging and Cricket as Ethical Discourse -- Walking, the Judicial Function and the Meaning of Life -- Other Stories about Cricket, Law and the Meaning of Life -- Capitalism and the Meaning of Cricket -- Class Struggle, Old School Tie and the Meaning of Cricket -- The Hill, the Members and Others: the Crowd as Sub-text -- Bodyline, Postmodernism. Law and the Meaning of Life -- Conclusion: On Life Law and Cricket. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29.

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Cricket--Social aspects
Cricket--Rules
Sociological jurisprudence

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