Synopses & Reviews
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.
About the Author
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.
Table of Contents
General Editors' Preface,
Michael Freeman and David Napier1. Riding or Killing the Centaur? Reflections on the Identities of Legal Anthropology, Franz von Benda-Beckmann
2. Law and Anthropology: Old Relations, New Relativities, Carol Greenhouse
3. Law and Anthropology in a "Glocal" World - The Challenge of Dialogue, Christoph Eberhard
4. Cultural Conflicts, Annelise Riles
5. Ethnography in Ordinary Case Law, Rebecca R. French
6. From Tribal Tibet: The Significance of the Legal Form, Fernanda Pirie
7. Anthropological Perspective is on Governance In a Transnational World, Anne Griffiths
8. Anthropologists In The Canadian Courts, Elizabeth Cassell
9. Legal Foundations for the Recognition of Customary law In the Post-Colonial South Pacific, Erika J Techera
10. Indigeneity and the Expert: Negotiating Identity: the Case of the Central Kalahari Game Reserve, Maria Sapignoli
11. Suturing Difference: The Articulation of Property and Participation in Land in Fiji, Allen Abramson
12. The Role of Social Representation in the Production and Application of the Law: A Case Study of Property Law in Senegal, Caroline Plançon
13. "Nature" Categories of Intellectual Property in Western - Inspired Legal Cultures: International Treaties as Ethnographic Objects, Claudia Ituarte-Lima
14. Indigenous Peoples and the Right of Political Autonomy in an Age of Global Legal Pluralism, Steven Wheatley
15. Relating To The Subjects of Human Rights: The Culture of Agency in Human Rights Discourse, Sally Engle Merry
16. Multicultural Interlegality? Negotiating Family Law in the Context of Muslim Legal Pluralism in the U.K., Samia Bano
17. Professional Integrity, Richard Abel
18. Discipline Exchange on Organ Swaps, Marie-Andrée Jacob
19. Bestia Sacer..., Robin Mackenzie
20. Framing The Family in Late Imperial China: An Anthropological Glance at Some Family Cases in the Conspectus of Penal Cases (Xing' huilan), Françoise Lauwaert
21. The Rules of Buddhist Monks: Issues of Property and Pollution, Malcolm Voyce