Adjudication in Action

Baudouin Dupret is Research Director at (CNRS), France, Professor in the Department of Economic, Social and Political Sciences and Communication at the Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium, Director of the Centre Jacques-Berque, Morocco, and author of Droit et Sciences Sociales.

Honourable Mention, American Sociological Association's Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis Book Awards, 2011-2012 'Based in the analysis of work, sequential organization and membership categorization in a collection of Egyptian legal proceedings including a trial for perversion and debauchery (homosexuality), Dupret gives us the most sustained attempt yet at a praxeology of judicial activity, re-specifying such legal objects as fact, person, intention, cause and judgement in relation to morality (above all), rationality, normality, language, context, rule, action, and text. It’s a remarkable tour de force.' Peter Eglin, Wilfred Laurier University, Canada '... informative and stimulating... ’Adjudication in Action’ is a very welcome contribution to the ethnomethodological and sociological coverage of actual practice(s) of law in courts and related pre- and post-courtroom bureaucratic activities...' Symbolic Interaction

• Contents: Introduction: a grammar of law in context and action; Part I Law and Morality: Bases of a Praxeological Approach: Law and morality: constructs and models; The morality of cognition: the normativity of ordinary reasoning; Law in action: a praxeological approach to law and justice. Part II Law in Context and in Action: Law in context; legal activity and the institutional context; Procedural constraint: sequentiality, routine, and formal correctness; Legal relevance: the production of factuality and legality. Part III A Practical Grammar of Legal Concepts: From law in the books to law in action: Egyptian criminal law between doctrine, case law, jurisprudence, and practice; The natural person: the contingent and contextual production of legal personality; The production of causality: a praxeological grammar of the use of causal concepts; Intention in action: the teleological orientation of the parties to criminal cases. Part IV Praxeological Study of Judgments on Morality: Morality on trial: structure and intelligibility of the court sentence; Questions of morality: sequential, structured organization of the interrogation; The categories of morality: homosexuality between perversion and debauchery; Conclusion: the morality of judgment and the judgment of morality: a praxeological approach; Bibliography; Index.