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Facing History, Facing Ourselves: Eric Yamamoto And The Quest For Justice, Robert S. Change
Facing History, Facing Ourselves: Eric Yamamoto And The Quest For Justice, Robert S. Change
Michigan Journal of Race and Law
Review of Interracial Justice: Conflict and Reconciliation in Post-Civil Rights America by Eric Yamamoto
Farewell To An Idea? Ideology In Legal Theory, David Charny
Farewell To An Idea? Ideology In Legal Theory, David Charny
Michigan Law Review
In 1956, Morocco inaugurated a constitutional democratic polity on the Western model. Elections were to be held, and political parties formed, with voters to be registered by party. The Berbers, however, did not join the parties as individual voters. Each Berber clan joined their chosen party as a unit. To consecrate (or, perhaps, to accomplish) the clan's choice, a bullock was sacrificed. These sacrificial rites offer a useful parable about the relationship between law and culture. The social order imposed by law depends crucially on the "culture" of the participants in the system - their habits, dispositions, views of the …