Law as Culture (eBook)

An Invitation

Lawrence Rosen (Autor)

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2017
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-8758-3 (ISBN)

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Lawrence Rosen is William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Anthropology at Princeton University and adjunct professor of Law at Columbia University. Named to the first group of MacArthur Fellows, he is the recipient of awards from the Guggenheim Foundation and the Carnegie Corporation. Among his previous books are The Anthropology of Justice, The Justice of Islam, and The Culture of Islam.Lawrence Rosen is William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Anthropology at Princeton University and adjunct professor of Law at Columbia University. Named to the first group of MacArthur Fellows, he is the recipient of awards from the Guggenheim Foundation and the Carnegie Corporation. Among his previous books are The Anthropology of Justice, The Justice of Islam, and The Culture of Islam.

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Law is integral to culture, and culture to law. Often considered a distinctive domain with strange rules and stranger language, law is actually part of a culture's way of expressing its sense of the order of things. In Law as Culture, Lawrence Rosen invites readers to consider how the facts that are adduced in a legal forum connect to the ways in which facts are constructed in other areas of everyday life, how the processes of legal decision-making partake of the logic by which the culture as a whole is put together, and how courts, mediators, or social pressures fashion a sense of the world as consistent with common sense and social identity. While the book explores issues comparatively, in each instance it relates them to contemporary Western experience. The development of the jury and Continental legal proceedings thus becomes a story of the development of Western ideas of the person and time; African mediation techniques become tests for the style and success of similar efforts in America and Europe; the assertion that one's culture should be considered as an excuse for a crime becomes a challenge to the relation of cultural norms and cultural diversity. Throughout the book, the reader is invited to approach law afresh, as a realm that is integral to every culture and as a window into the nature of culture itself.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 17.3.2017
• Zusatzinfo: 19 halftones.
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Beruf / Finanzen / Recht / Wirtschaft
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Rechtsgeschichte
• Schlagworte: Ambiguity (law) • Ambivalence • Analogy • anthropologist • appellate court • attempt • awareness • Basic Books • Cambridge University Press • character evidence • Clifford Geertz • Common Law • Community court • Compurgation • Conciliation • Conscience • Consideration • Contract • counsel • Criminal Law • Decision-Making • deed • defendant • Determination • dichotomy • Discretion • Dispute Resolution • English law • European Union Law • Evidence (Law) • Family Law • Foreskin • formality • Immanence • Incest • Incest Taboo • Indian Claims Commission • Institution • Intention (criminal law) • International Law • Jurisdiction • Jurist • Jury • Jury Nullification • jury trial • Karl Llewellyn • kinship • Kleptomania • Law of the United States • lawyer • Legal Anthropology • Legal burden of proof • Legal Education • Legal History • Legal proceeding • legal process • Legislation • level playing field • Literature • Max Gluckman • Moral certainty • Morality • Necessity • Oxford University Press • perjury • Philosopher • Precept • private law • Probability • Procedural justice • Procedural law • Prosecutor • Provocation (legal) • punishment • reason • Religion • Requirement • result • Rule of Law • Scientist • sensibility • Sharia • social relation • Social Science • Sociology of Law • Sources of law • Statute • Theft • To this Day • Trial by combat • Trial by ordeal • Tribunal • Trier of fact • Uncertainty • unconscionability • University of California Press • University of Chicago Press • V. • verdict • Western Law
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-8758-5 / 1400887585
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-8758-3 / 9781400887583