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The Songs Of Other Birds, Anya Bernstein Jan 2018

The Songs Of Other Birds, Anya Bernstein

Contributions to Books

Published as Chapter 14 in Insiders, Outsiders, Injuries, and Law: Revisiting The Oven Bird’s Song, Mary Nell Trautner, ed..

In this essay, written for a volume that re-engages with David Engel's classic article, The Oven Bird's Song, I consider how we decide how to situate what we encounter in our research. Comparing the findings of my own research in Taipei with Engel's work in Thailand and America, I ask how we can decide to give different interpretations of seemingly similar social phenomena -- specifically, our interlocutors' evident distaste for invoking the law.

Although many of my interlocutors in Taiwan expressed …


Uprooted Justice: Transformations Of Law And Everyday Life In Northern Thailand, David M. Engel Jan 2011

Uprooted Justice: Transformations Of Law And Everyday Life In Northern Thailand, David M. Engel

Journal Articles

Studies of law in everyday life tend to view law either as instrumental in shaping specific decisions and practices or as constitutive of the cultural categories through which humans apprehend their world and perceive law as relevant to a greater or lesser extent. This article, however, suggests that circumstances may arise in which law’s role in relation to everyday life is neither instrumental nor constitutive but instead becomes one of radical dissociation. Based on an analysis of injuries in northern Thailand, it examines two transformational episodes in Thai legal and political history. The first occurred at the turn of the …


Karo Kari: Honor Killing, Wendy M. Gonzalez Sep 2000

Karo Kari: Honor Killing, Wendy M. Gonzalez

Buffalo Women's Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Silencing The Guns In Haiti, Elizabeth Mensch Apr 1999

Silencing The Guns In Haiti, Elizabeth Mensch

Buffalo Law Review

Book review of Irwin Stotzky's Silencing the Guns in Haiti: The Promise of Deliberative Democracy


African Women In France: Immigration, Family And Work, Judy Scales-Trent Jan 1999

African Women In France: Immigration, Family And Work, Judy Scales-Trent

Journal Articles

No abstract provided.


The Role Of Legal Rhetoric In The Failure Of Democratic Change In China, Joseph W. Dellapenna Jan 1996

The Role Of Legal Rhetoric In The Failure Of Democratic Change In China, Joseph W. Dellapenna

Buffalo Journal of International Law

No abstract provided.


Comparative Law And Social Theory. By Jerome Hall., Kurt Lipstein Apr 1964

Comparative Law And Social Theory. By Jerome Hall., Kurt Lipstein

Buffalo Law Review

No abstract provided.