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Sages, Savages, And Other Speech Act Communities: Culture In Comparative Law, Monica Eppinger
Sages, Savages, And Other Speech Act Communities: Culture In Comparative Law, Monica Eppinger
Saint Louis University Law Journal
This Article re-examines the possible utility of the concept of culture in comparative law. It reviews some limits and misuses of the concept of culture and introduces a components approach to using it in comparative analysis. First presented at a Symposium inspired by Laurence Tribe’s The Invisible Constitution, the Article takes up a key question emerging from Tribe’s work: How does a constitution constitute? Two conceptual tools from anthropology and sister disciplines, performative speech acts and performance theory, lend insight into how discourse produces literal meaning and, in parallel, produces and reproduces speech act communities. Having introduced a components …
Miranda In Comparative Law, Stephen C. Thaman
Miranda In Comparative Law, Stephen C. Thaman
Saint Louis University Law Journal
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