Current Legal Issues Volume 12 Law and Anthropology

Author: Michael Freeman
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780199580910
Published In: November 2009
Format: Hardback
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The latest volume in the established Current Legal Issues series, which brings together leading scholars from around the world to explore the interactions between legal thought and other disciplines
A wide range of articles offer a broad overview of the interactions between anthropology and law

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.

Readership: Academics and researchers interested in the interaction between law and anthropology

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

Edited by Michael Freeman, Professor of English Law, University College London, and David Napier, Professor of Anthropology, University College London

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.

Contributors:

Richard Abel, University of California, Los Angeles
Allen Abramson, University College London
Samia Bano, University of Reading
Franz von Benda-Beckmann, Max Planck Institute of Social Anthropology
Elizabeth Cassell, University of Essex
Christoph Eberhard, Facultés universitaires Saint Louis and LAJP / University Paris, Panthéon-Sorbonne
Michael Freeman, University College London
Rebecca R. French, Buffalo Law School, State University of New York
Carol Greenhouse, Princeton University
Anne Griffiths, University of Edinburgh
Claudia Ituarte-Lima, University College London
Marie-Andrée Jacob, Keele University
Françoise Lauwaert, Université Libre de Bruxelles
Robin Mackenzie, University of Kent
Sally Engle Merry, New York University
David Napier, University College London
Fernanda Pirie, Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, University of Oxford
Caroline Plançon, LAJP / University Paris, Panthéon-Sorbonne
Annelise Riles, Cornell University
Maria Sapignoli, University of Essex
Erika J Techera, Macquarie University
Malcolm Voyce, Macquarie University
Steven Wheatley, University of Leeds