Austin Sarat is William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science and Five College Fortieth Anniversary Professor at Amherst College. Lawrence Douglas is Professor of Law, Jurisprudence & Social Thought at Amherst College. Martha Merrill Umphrey is Associate Professor of Law, Jurisprudence & Social Thought at Amherst College.

• Contents contributors000 Complexity, Contingency, and Change in Law's Knowledge Practices: An Introduction000 austin sarat, lawrence douglas, and martha merrill umphrey with connor clarke "Fact" and the Proof of Fact in Anglo American Law c. 1500-1850000 barbara j. shapiro Theoretical and Methodological Issues in the Study of Legal Knowledge Practices000 mariana valverde Legal Realism as Psychological and Cultural (Not Political) Realism000 Donald Braman and Dan M. Kahan How Law Knows in the American Trial Court000 robert p. burns Fact-Finding in Constitutional Cases000 david l. faigman index000

"This work raises new questions while also reexamining standard socio-legal issues in refreshing ways. The result is a rich and innovative look at the routines of truth seeking and fact finding."—Patricia Ewick, Clark University "How Law Knows is a useful and interesting collection addressing law's ways of knowing. The authors reveal that the establishment and organized use of legal facts is varied, historical, and amenable to a rich and diverse set of methods of inquiry."—Jon Goldberg-Hiller, University of Hawaii, Manoa