Insiders, Outsiders, Injuries, and Law: Revisiting 'The Oven Bird's Song'

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Insiders, Outsiders, Injuries, and Law: Revisiting 'The Oven Bird's Song'

By Mary Nell Trautner
Cambridge University Press January 2018

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9781107188402
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Cambridge University Press
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January 2018
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A central theme of law and society is that people's ideas about law and the decisions they make to mobilize law are shaped by community norms and cultural context. But this was not always an established concept.

Among the first empirical pieces to articulate this theory was David Engel's 1984 article, "The Oven Bird's Song: Insiders, Outsiders, and Personal Injuries in an American Community." Over thirty years later, this article is now widely considered to be part of the law and society canon.

This book argues that Engel's article succeeds so brilliantly because it integrates a wide variety of issues, such cultural transformation, attitudes about law, dispute processing, legal consciousness, rights mobilization, inclusion and exclusion, and inequality.

Contributors to this volume explore the influence of Engel's important work, engaging with the possibilities in its challenging hypotheses and provocative omissions related to the legal system and legal process, class conflict and difference, and law in other cultures.

Table of Contents

Part I. Introduction and Contextualization:
1. Revisiting the oven bird's song Mary Nell Trautner
2. The oven bird's song: insiders, outsiders, and personal injuries in an American community David M. Engel
3. Emulating Sherlock Holmes: the dog that didn't bark, the victim who didn't sue, and other contradictions of the 'hyper-litigious' society Barbara Yngvesson
4. Karl's law school, or the oven bird in Buffalo Alfred S. Konefsky

Part II. The Oven Bird's Insights into the Legal System and Legal Process:
5. Challenging legal consciousness: practice, institutions, and varieties of resistance Anna-Maria Marshall
6. Client selection: how lawyers reflect and influence community values Lynn Mather
7. Do jurors hear the oven bird's song? Valerie P. Hans
8. Having a right but using it too: 'The Oven Bird's Song' about contracts Stewart Macaulay

Part III. Insiders, Outsiders, Class Conflict, and Difference:
9. Indigenous litigiousness: the oven bird's song and the miner's canary Eve Darian-Smith
10. Listening for the songs of others: insiders, outsiders, and the legal marginalization of the working underclass in America Michael McCann
11. Racing the oven bird: criminalization, rightlessness, and the politics of immigration Jamie Longazel
12. Irresponsible matter: sublunar dreams of injury and identity Anne Bloom
13. Student perceptions of (their) place in relationship to 'The Oven Bird's Song' Renee Ann Cramer

Part IV. Conflict and Law in Other Cultures:
14. The songs of other birds Anya Bernstein
15. Imagined community and litigation behavior: the meaning of automobile compensation lawsuits in Japan Yoshitaka Wada
16. Can 'The Oven Bird' migrate north of the border? Annie Bunting

Part V. Afterward:
17. Looking backward, looking forward: past and future lives of 'The Oven Bird's Song' David M. Engel.
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