Overview

Current Legal Issues, like its sister volume Current Legal Problems, is based upon an annual colloquium held at University College London. Each year leading scholars from around the world gather to discuss the relationship between law and another discipline of thought. Each colloquium examines how the external discipline is conceived in legal thought and argument, how the law is pictured in that discipline, and analyses points of controversy in the use, and abuse, of extra-legal arguments within legal theory and practice. Law and Anthropology, the latest volume in the Current Legal Issues series, offers an insight into the state of law and anthropology scholarship today. It focuses on the inter-connections between the two disciplines and also includes case studies from around the world.

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Author:   Michael Freeman (Professor of English Law, University College London) ,  David Napier (Professor of Anthropology, University College London)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Volume:   v. 12
Dimensions:   Width: 16.30cm , Height: 3.90cm , Length: 24.10cm
Weight:   1.026kg
ISBN:  

9780199580910

ISBN 10:   019958091
Pages:   584
Publication Date:   19 November 2009
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   To order  
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Table of Contents

"Michael Freeman and David Napier: General Editors' Preface Michael Freeman and David Napier: Introduction: Law and Anthropology 1: Franz von Benda-Beckmann: Riding or Killing the Centaur? Reflections on the Identities of Legal Anthropology 2: Carol J Greenhouse: Law and Anthropology: Old Relations, New Relativities 3: Christoph Eberhard: Law and Anthropology in a ""Glocal "" World: The Challenge of Dialogue 4: Annelise Riles: Cultural Conflicts 5: Rebecca R French: Ethnography in Ordinary Case Law 6: Fernanda Pirie: From Tribal Tibet: The Significance of the Legal Form 7: Anne Griffiths: Anthropological Perspectives on Legal Pluralism and Governance in a Transnational World 8: Elizabeth Cassell: Anthropologists In The Canadian Courts 9: Erika J Techera: Legal Foundations for the Recognition of Customary Law in the Post-Colonial South Pacific 10: Maria Sapignoli: Indigeneity and the Expert: Negotiating Identity in the Case of the Central Kalahari Game Reserve 11: Allen Abramson: The Lie of the Land: Suturing the Jural and the Ritual in Fiji, Western Pacific 12: Caroline Plançon: The Role of Social Representations in the Production and Application of the Law: A Case Study of Property Law in Senegal 13: Claudia Ituarte-Lima: Categories of Intellectual Property and Biodiversity in Western Inspired Legal Cultures 14: Steven Wheatley: Indigenous Peoples and the Right of Political Autonomy in an Age of Global Legal Pluralism 15: Sally Engle Merry: Relating to the Subjects of Human Rights: The Culture of Agency in Human Rights Discourse 16: Samia Bano: Multicultural Interlegality? Negotiating Family Law in the Context of Muslim Legal Pluralism in the UK 17: Richard Abel: Professional Integrity 18: Marie-Andrée Jacob: Discipline Exchange on Swaps 19: Robin Mackenzie: Bestia Sacer and Agamben's Anthropological Machine: Biomedical/Legal Taxonomies as Somatechnologies of Human and Nonhuman Animals' Ethico-Political Relations 20: Françoise Lauwaert: Framing The Family in Late Imperial China: An Anthropological Glance at Some Family Cases in the Conspectus of Penal Cases (Xing'an huilan) 21: Malcolm Voyce: The Rules of Buddhist Monks: Issues of Property and Pollution"

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Michael Freeman is Professor of English Law at University College London and is the series editor for Current Legal Issues. David Napier is Professor of Anthropology at University College London.

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