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The Songs Of Other Birds, Anya Bernstein
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
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
Karo Kari: Honor Killing, Wendy M. Gonzalez
Buffalo Women's Law Journal
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Silencing The Guns In Haiti, Elizabeth Mensch
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
African Women In France: Immigration, Family And Work, Judy Scales-Trent
Journal Articles
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The Role Of Legal Rhetoric In The Failure Of Democratic Change In China, Joseph W. Dellapenna
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
Comparative Law And Social Theory. By Jerome Hall., Kurt Lipstein
Buffalo Law Review
No abstract provided.