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Cornell University Law School

2015

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Escaping The American Blot - A Comparative Look At Federalism In Australia And The United States Through The Lens Of Family Law, William Buss, Emily Buss Feb 2015

Escaping The American Blot - A Comparative Look At Federalism In Australia And The United States Through The Lens Of Family Law, William Buss, Emily Buss

Cornell International Law Journal

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From Comparison To Collaboration: Experiments With A New Scholarly And Political Form, Annelise Riles Jan 2015

From Comparison To Collaboration: Experiments With A New Scholarly And Political Form, Annelise Riles

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

In both the anthropology of law and comparative legal studies, a new direction for research and practice is emerging: collaboration. This article analyzes collaboration as a modality of comparative law and legal anthropology and indeed a wider template for social and political life at this moment. I consider the theoretical and practical reasons for its importance at this moment, and its implications for the relationship of comparative law and legal anthropology. I argue that the very ubiquity and mundanity of collaboration discourse and practice in law and policy suggests that a response cannot simply be critique from outside — it …