Cricket and the Law : The Man in White Is Always Right
by Fraser, DavidPub. Date: 2004-05-31
Publisher(s): Taylor & Francis
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Summary
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 - Fraser explores the ambiguities of law and social order in cricket.
Table of Contents
| 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 | |
| It's 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 | |
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