Hakutulokset: Sarja Cultural Diversity and Law
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African Customary Justice
This book presents an important ethnographic and theoretical advance in legal anthropological scholarship by interrogating customary law, customary courts and legal pluralism in …
Judging in the Islamic, Jewish and Zoroastrian Legal Traditions
This book presents a comparative analysis of the judiciary in the Islamic, Jewish and Zoroastrian legal systems. It compares postulations of legal theory to legal practice in order …
Law and Religion in the 21st Century
This book brings together leading international scholars of law and religion to provide an overview of current issues in State-religion relations. The first part of the collection …
Muslim Marriage in Western Courts
This book describes and analyses the notion of Mahr, the Muslim custom whereby the groom has to give a gift to the bride in consideration of the marriage. It explores how Western …
Legal Reform and Business Contracts in Developing Economies
This book examines the prospects for business law reform to drive economic development in developing countries. It argues that, despite statements to the contrary, cultural factors …
Legal Practice and Cultural Diversity
Legal Practice and Cultural Diversity considers how contemporary cultural and religious diversity challenges legal practice, how legal practice responds to that challenge, and how …
Trialling Culture, Protecting Women
There is a current interest, alongside increased public debate, on the links between culture, law and violence against women. Focusing on a series of racialised sexual violence and …
Access to Justice and Human Security
For most people in rural South Africa, traditional justice mechanisms provide the only feasible means of accessing any form of justice. These mechanisms are popularly associated …
Shari‘a As Discourse
This volume exposes some of the various issues raised in relation to Muslim communities in Europe by putting the intellectual and legal traditions into dialogue. It brings together …
Courts, Pluralism and Law in the Everyday
This book examines the everyday judicial experience in four multicultural jurisdictions as a means of exploring the relationship between legal systems and cultural identities. …
Law, Cultural Diversity, and Criminal Defense
American legal scholars have debated for some time the need for a cultural defense in criminal proceedings where minority cultural information seems perti nent to a finding of …