Baudouin Dupret is Research Director at French National Centre for Scientific Research.Michael Lynch is a Professor of Science & Technology Studies at Cornell University.Tim Berard is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Kent State University.

The book offers a distinctive ethnomethodological approach to legal activities and insights into the study of law at work... The volume is very well organized and highly cohesive so that individual chapters clearly contribute to each wider topic. It will be very valuable for anyone interested in the ethnomethodological approaches to law today since it provides an excellent overview of the field, and offers a collection of articles that are interesting, informative, and well written. Overall, this is a highly relevant, well researched and well-edited book which will certainly inspire future research. It will be of interest to anyone interested in legal interactions and discourse.in the legal settings.

• Introduction: Law at Work ; Baudouin Dupret, Michael Lynch, and Tim Berard ; Section I. Practical Action, Situated Interaction, and the Salience of Law ; The Editors ; Chapter One: The Practical Grammar of Law and Its Relation to Time ; Baudouin Dupret and Jean-Noel Ferrie ; Chapter Two: Aspiring Magistrates: Entry Exams and General Traineeship at the Court of Lecce ; Luisa Zappulli and Karen Latricia Hough ; Chapter Three: Practical Solutions: Praxiologial Analysis of Judgments in Civil Hearings ; Pedtro Heitor Barros Geraldo ; Section II. Practical Pedagogies in the Performance of Legal Activities ; The Editors ; Chapter Four: Hearing Clients' Talk as Lawyers' Work: The Case of Public Legal Consultation Conference ; Shiro Kashimura ; Chapter Five: Producing Records of Testimony: Some Competent Legal Methods for Incompetent Trials ; Kenneth Liberman ; Section III. Speech, Text, and Technology in Testimony ; The Editors ; Chapter Six: Reporting Talk When Testifying: Intertextuality, Consistency and Transformation in Witnesses Use of Direct Reported Speech ; Renata Galatolo ; Chapter Seven: Turning a Witness: The Textual and Interactional Production of a Statement in Adversarial Testimony ; Michael Lynch ; Chapter Eight : "Is there someone in my videoconference room?" Managing Remote Witnesses in Distributed Courtrooms ; Christian Licoppe and Laurence Dumoulin ; Section IV. Deviance, Membership Categories, and Legalities ; The Editors ; Chapter Nine: Hate Crimes, Labels, and Accounts: Pragmatic Reflections on U.S. Hate Crimes ; Tim Berard ; Chapter Ten: Descriptions of Deviance: Making the Case for Professional Help ; Stephen Hester and Sally Hester ; Chapter Eleven: Discursive Cartographies, Moral Practices: International Law and the Gaza War ; Lena Jayyusi

Baudouin Dupret is Research Director at French National Centre for Scientific Research.Michael Lynch is a Professor of Science & Technology Studies at Cornell University.Tim Berard is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Kent State University.

The book offers a distinctive ethnomethodological approach to legal activities and insights into the study of law at work... The volume is very well organized and highly cohesive so that individual chapters clearly contribute to each wider topic. It will be very valuable for anyone interested in the ethnomethodological approaches to law today since it provides an excellent overview of the field, and offers a collection of articles that are interesting, informative, and well written. Overall, this is a highly relevant, well researched and well-edited book which will certainly inspire future research. It will be of interest to anyone interested in legal interactions and discourse.in the legal settings.

• Introduction: Law at Work ; Baudouin Dupret, Michael Lynch, and Tim Berard ; Section I. Practical Action, Situated Interaction, and the Salience of Law ; The Editors ; Chapter One: The Practical Grammar of Law and Its Relation to Time ; Baudouin Dupret and Jean-Noel Ferrie ; Chapter Two: Aspiring Magistrates: Entry Exams and General Traineeship at the Court of Lecce ; Luisa Zappulli and Karen Latricia Hough ; Chapter Three: Practical Solutions: Praxiologial Analysis of Judgments in Civil Hearings ; Pedtro Heitor Barros Geraldo ; Section II. Practical Pedagogies in the Performance of Legal Activities ; The Editors ; Chapter Four: Hearing Clients' Talk as Lawyers' Work: The Case of Public Legal Consultation Conference ; Shiro Kashimura ; Chapter Five: Producing Records of Testimony: Some Competent Legal Methods for Incompetent Trials ; Kenneth Liberman ; Section III. Speech, Text, and Technology in Testimony ; The Editors ; Chapter Six: Reporting Talk When Testifying: Intertextuality, Consistency and Transformation in Witnesses Use of Direct Reported Speech ; Renata Galatolo ; Chapter Seven: Turning a Witness: The Textual and Interactional Production of a Statement in Adversarial Testimony ; Michael Lynch ; Chapter Eight : "Is there someone in my videoconference room?" Managing Remote Witnesses in Distributed Courtrooms ; Christian Licoppe and Laurence Dumoulin ; Section IV. Deviance, Membership Categories, and Legalities ; The Editors ; Chapter Nine: Hate Crimes, Labels, and Accounts: Pragmatic Reflections on U.S. Hate Crimes ; Tim Berard ; Chapter Ten: Descriptions of Deviance: Making the Case for Professional Help ; Stephen Hester and Sally Hester ; Chapter Eleven: Discursive Cartographies, Moral Practices: International Law and the Gaza War ; Lena Jayyusi