Culture in the Domains of Law

ISBN-13: 9781316615133 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 456 str.

Ren' Provost

Opis

This book examines whether law, as a cultural practice, can apply across cultural boundaries to bind people with vastly different beliefs and practices.

Spis treści

1. Centaur jurisprudence - culture before the law René Provost; Part I. Accommodation of Minority Cultural Practices: 2. Legal pluralism and the interpretive limits of law Anthony Connolly; 3. Family law, state recognition and intersecting spheres/spaces: Jewish and Muslim women divorcing in the UK Pascale Fournier; 4. Customary norms vs state law. French courts' responses to the traditional practice of excision Lucia Bellucci; Part II. Aboriginal Law: 5. Law, culture, fact in indigenous claims: legal pluralism as a problem of recognition Kirsten Anker; 6. On perpetuity: tradition, law, and the pluralism of Hopi jurisprudence Justin Richland; 7. Existing in the hyphen: on relational legal culture Jen Hendry; 8. The unexpected effects of the recognition of indigenous rights in New Caledonia: the story of an assimilation measure becoming the trigger for the acculturation of the French legal system Thomas Burelli and Régis Lafargue; Part III. Alternative Dispute Resolution: 9. Cultures of conflict: welcoming and resisting 'non-Western' influence in alternative dispute resolution Eric Reiter; 10. Rebalancing power and culture: the case of alternative dispute resolution Morgan Brigg; 11. Grassroots law in context: moving beyond the cultural justification Kristin Doughty; Part IV. Law in Conflicts: 12. Cannibal laws René Provost; 13. Beyond the paradox of exporting the rule of law: resilience and the war on drugs in the Americas David Chandler.