Introduction : approaching Islamic law -- Following the law -- Going to court : everyday life in a Muslim court -- Why do women usually win in Muslim family law courts? -- Parallel worlds : shadow law and political culture in Morocco -- Back to the future? : Muslim-Jewish partne…
"In A Common Justice Uriel I. Simonsohn examines the legislative response of Christian and Jewish religious elites to the problem posed by the appeal of their coreligionists to judicial authorities outside their communities. Focusing on the late seventh to early eleventh centuri…
"This ethnography investigates immigration enforcement in New York City, following individual migrants, their lawyers, and the NGOs that serve them into the immigration courtrooms that decide their cases"--
My camp -- The camp of the talngai-gawarima -- Feeling the Djang : the camp of senior law man Neidjie -- The spider or the web? : The camp of senior law man Mowaljarlai -- Health and land : the camp of senior law man Wandjuk Marika -- The journeys : from camps of old men to camp…
A case study of the daily practice of one of the French supreme courts, the Conseil d'Etat, which specialises in administrative law. Because of an unprecedented access to the collective discussions of judges, the author is able to reconstruct in detail the weaving of legal reaso…
A case study of the daily practice of one of the French supreme courts, the Conseil d'Etat, which specialises in administrative law. Because of an unprecedented access to the collective discussions of judges, the author is able to reconstruct in detail the weaving of legal reaso…
Machine generated contents note: Introduction: the Party-State enters the mosque; 1. History, the Chinese state, and Islamic law; 2. Linxia at the crossroads; 3. Ritual lawfare; 4. Learning the law; 5. Wedding laws; 6. Moral economies; 7. Procedural justice; Conclusion: law, min…
An interdisciplinary collection on the role of deportation in national security policy.
"This important collection examines deportation as an increasingly global mechanism of state control. Anthropologists, historians, legal scholars, and sociologists consider not only the physical expulsion of noncitizens, but also the social discipline and labour subordination re…
""For hundreds of years, we have struggled to survive amid a patrilineal system of government. We will not continue to allow government policy to manage our affairs, decide who is Aboriginal or not based on blood quantum ..."--Chief Candice Paul, St. Mary's First Nation Author P…
""For hundreds of years, we have struggled to survive amid a patrilineal system of government. We will not continue to allow government policy to manage our affairs, decide who is Aboriginal or not based on blood quantum ..."--Chief Candice Paul, St. Mary's First Nation Author P…
