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Law, Cultural Diversity, and Criminal Defense
Av Craig L. Carr, Lisa Johnson
Häftad, 2020
638 kr
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American legal scholars have debated for some time the need for a cultural defense in criminal proceedings where minority cultural information seems perti nent to a finding of criminal responsibility in situations where a minority cultural defendant has violated a valid criminal statute. This work …
Culture and the Judiciary
The Anthropologist Judge
Häftad, 2020
638 kr
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How can jurists resolve multicultural conflicts? Which kind of questions should judges ask when culture enters the horizon of the law? Are they then called to become anthropologists? Through the analysis of hundreds of cases produced through decades of multicultural jurisprudence, this book …
Challenge of Legal Pluralism
Local dispute settlement and the Indian-state relationship in Ecuador
Häftad, 2020
636 kr
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Within the Latin American context, legal pluralism is often depicted as a dichotomy between customary law and national law. In addition, the use of customary law alongside national law is frequently portrayed as a vehicle of resistance. This book argues that, because ordinary Indians are not …
State and Legal Practice in the Caucasus
Anthropological Perspectives on Law and Politics
Av Stéphane Voell, Iwona Kaliszewska
Häftad, 2020
712 kr
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Legal pluralism and the experience of the state in the Caucasus are at the centre of this edited volume. This is a region affected by a multitude of legal orders and the book describes social action and governance in the light of this, and considers how conceptions of order are enforced, used, …
Between Cultural Diversity and Common Heritage
Legal and Religious Perspectives on the Sacred Places of the Mediterranean
Av Silvio Ferrari, Andrea Benzo
Häftad, 2020
692 kr
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Going beyond the more usual focus on Jerusalem as a sacred place, this book presents legal perspectives on the most important sacred places of the Mediterranean. The first part of the book discusses the notion of sacred places in anthropological, sociological and legal studies and provides an …
Legal Reform and Business Contracts in Developing Economies
Trust, Culture, and Law in Dakar
Av Julie Paquin
Häftad, 2020
636 kr
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This book examines the prospects for business law reform to drive economic development in developing countries. It argues that, despite statements to the contrary, cultural factors and other local conditions in developing countries are not properly taken into account in current business law reform …
Access to Justice and Human Security
Cultural Contradictions in Rural South Africa
Häftad, 2019
636 kr
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For most people in rural South Africa, traditional justice mechanisms provide the only feasible means of accessing any form of justice. These mechanisms are popularly associated with restorative justice, reconciliation and harmony in rural communities. Yet, this ethnographic study grounded in the …
State and the Paradox of Customary Law in Africa
Av Olaf Zenker, Markus Virgil Hoehne
Häftad, 2019
636 kr
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Customary law and traditional authorities continue to play highly complex and contested roles in contemporary African states. Reversing the common preoccupation with studying the impact of the post/colonial state on customary regimes, this volume analyses how the interactions between state and …
Legal Practice and Cultural Diversity
Av Ralph Grillo, Roger Ballard m. fl.
Inbunden, 2009
2317 kr
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Legal Practice and Cultural Diversity considers how contemporary cultural and religious diversity challenges legal practice, how legal practice responds to that challenge, and how practice is changing in the encounter with the cultural diversity occasioned by large-scale, post-war immigration. …
Shari‘a As Discourse
Legal Traditions and the Encounter with Europe
Av Lisbet Christoffersen, Jørgen S. Nielsen
Inbunden, 2010
2317 kr
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This volume exposes some of the various issues raised in relation to Muslim communities in Europe by putting the intellectual and legal traditions into dialogue. It brings together a number of scholars of Shari’a and Islamic law with counterparts from the parallel European disciplines of …
African Customary Justice
Living Law, Legal Pluralism, and Public Ethics
Av Pnina Werbner, Richard Werbner
Inbunden, 2021
2317 kr
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This book presents an important ethnographic and theoretical advance in legal anthropological scholarship by interrogating customary law, customary courts and legal pluralism in sub-Saharan Africa. It highlights the vitality and continued relevance of customary justice at a time when customary …
African Customary Justice
Living Law, Legal Pluralism, and Public Ethics
Av Pnina Werbner, Richard Werbner
Häftad, 2023
638 kr
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This book presents an important ethnographic and theoretical advance in legal anthropological scholarship by interrogating customary law, customary courts and legal pluralism in sub-Saharan Africa. It highlights the vitality and continued relevance of customary justice at a time when customary …
Courts, Pluralism and Law in the Everyday
Food, Clothing and Days of Rest
Inbunden, 2023
2519 kr
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This book examines the everyday judicial experience in four multicultural jurisdictions as a means of exploring the relationship between legal systems and cultural identities. Increasing social heterogeneity has deeply affected legal systems as courts and parliaments must now deal with a growing …
Courts, Pluralism and Law in the Everyday
Food, Clothing and Days of Rest
Häftad, 2024
598 kr
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This book examines the everyday judicial experience in four multicultural jurisdictions as a means of exploring the relationship between legal systems and cultural identities. Increasing social heterogeneity has deeply affected legal systems as courts and parliaments must now deal with a growing …
Access to Justice and Human Security
Cultural Contradictions in Rural South Africa
Inbunden, 2017
2317 kr
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For most people in rural South Africa, traditional justice mechanisms provide the only feasible means of accessing any form of justice. These mechanisms are popularly associated with restorative justice, reconciliation and harmony in rural communities. Yet, this ethnographic study grounded in the …
Judging in the Islamic, Jewish and Zoroastrian Legal Traditions
A Comparison of Theory and Practice
Av Janos Jany
Häftad, 2017
854 kr
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This book presents a comparative analysis of the judiciary in the Islamic, Jewish and Zoroastrian legal systems. It compares postulations of legal theory to legal practice in order to show that social practice can diverge significantly from religious and legal principles. It thus provides a greater …
Challenges of Justice in Diverse Societies
Constitutionalism and Pluralism
Häftad, 2016
786 kr
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In the urgency to respond to the challenges posed by diversity in contemporary societies, the discussion of normative foundations is often overlooked. This book takes that important first step, and offers new ways of thinking about diversity. Its contribution to an ongoing dialogue in this field …
Law and Religion in the 21st Century
Relations between States and Religious Communities
Av Rinaldo Cristofori, Silvio Ferrari
Häftad, 2016
912 kr
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This book brings together leading international scholars of law and religion to provide an overview of current issues in State-religion relations. The first part of the collection offers a picture of recent developments in key countries and regions. The second part is focused on Europe and, in …
Law, Religious Freedoms and Education in Europe
Häftad, 2016
786 kr
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This collection considers how contemporary cultural and religious diversity challenges and redefines national constitutional and legal frameworks and concepts, within the context of education. It offers a critical reflection on the extent and meanings given to religious freedom in education across …
Legal Practice and Cultural Diversity
Av Ralph Grillo, Roger Ballard m. fl.
Häftad, 2016
786 kr
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Legal Practice and Cultural Diversity considers how contemporary cultural and religious diversity challenges legal practice, how legal practice responds to that challenge, and how practice is changing in the encounter with the cultural diversity occasioned by large-scale, post-war immigration. …
Muslim Marriage in Western Courts
Lost in Transplantation
Häftad, 2016
839 kr
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This book describes and analyses the notion of Mahr, the Muslim custom whereby the groom has to give a gift to the bride in consideration of the marriage. It explores how Western courts, specifically in Canada, the United States, France, and Germany, have approached and interpreted Mahr. Although …
Shari‘a As Discourse
Legal Traditions and the Encounter with Europe
Av Lisbet Christoffersen, Jørgen S. Nielsen
Häftad, 2016
786 kr
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This volume exposes some of the various issues raised in relation to Muslim communities in Europe by putting the intellectual and legal traditions into dialogue. It brings together a number of scholars of Shari’a and Islamic law with counterparts from the parallel European disciplines of …
Socio-Legal Integration
Polish Post-2004 EU Enlargement Migrants in the United Kingdom
Häftad, 2016
786 kr
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This book examines how contemporary migrants form and transform their involvement with the law in their host countries and which factors influence this relationship. It suggests a more comprehensive insight into the socio-legal integration of migrants by analysing the interplay between the new …
Minorities and Nationalism in Turkish Law
Av Derya Bayir
Häftad, 2016
786 kr
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Examining the on-going dilemma of the management of diversity in Turkey from a historical and legal perspective, this book argues that the state’s failure to accommodate ethno-religious diversity is attributable to the founding philosophy of Turkish nationalism and its heavy penetration into the …
Culture and the Judiciary
The Anthropologist Judge
Inbunden, 2018
2317 kr
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How can jurists resolve multicultural conflicts? Which kind of questions should judges ask when culture enters the horizon of the law? Are they then called to become anthropologists? Through the analysis of hundreds of cases produced through decades of multicultural jurisprudence, this book …
Law, Cultural Diversity, and Criminal Defense
Av Craig L. Carr, Lisa Johnson
Inbunden, 2018
2317 kr
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American legal scholars have debated for some time the need for a cultural defense in criminal proceedings where minority cultural information seems perti nent to a finding of criminal responsibility in situations where a minority cultural defendant has violated a valid criminal statute. This work …
Declarations of Interdependence
A Legal Pluralist Approach to Indigenous Rights
Häftad, 2017
839 kr
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This book takes up the postcolonial challenge for law and explains how the problems of legal recognition for Indigenous peoples are tied to an orthodox theory of law. Constructing a theory of legal pluralism that is both critical of law's epistemological and ontological presuppositions, as well as …
Legal Pluralism in the Holy City
Competing Courts, Forum Shopping, and Institutional Dynamics in Jerusalem
Av Ido Shahar
Häftad, 2017
912 kr
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This book provides an unprecedented portrayal of a lively shari'a court in contemporary West Jerusalem, which belongs to the Israeli legal system but serves Palestinian residents of the eastern part of the city. It draws a rich picture of an intriguing institution, operating in an environment …
Muslim Families, Politics and the Law
A Legal Industry in Multicultural Britain
Av Ralph Grillo
Häftad, 2017
786 kr
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Contemporary European societies are multi-ethnic and multi-cultural, certainly in terms of the diversity which has stemmed from the immigration of workers and refugees and their settlement. Currently, however, there is widespread, often acrimonious, debate about ’other’ cultural and religious …
Muslim Marriage in Western Courts
Lost in Transplantation
Inbunden, 2010
2317 kr
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This book describes and analyses the notion of Mahr, the Muslim custom whereby the groom has to give a gift to the bride in consideration of the marriage. It explores how Western courts, specifically in Canada, the United States, France, and Germany, have approached and interpreted Mahr. Although …
