The Challenge of Legal Pluralism

Marc Simon Thomas

• Hardcover | Engels | Cultural Diversity and Law
• Within the Latin American context, legal pluralism is often depicted as a dichotomy between customary law and national law. In addition, the use of cu... Lees meer

Legal Reform and Business Contracts in Developing Economies

Julie Paquin

• Hardcover | Engels | Cultural Diversity and Law
• This book examines the prospects for business law reform to drive economic development in developing countries. It argues that, despite statements to ... Lees meer

Law and Religion in the 21st Century

• Hardcover | Engels | Cultural Diversity and Law
• This book brings together leading international scholars of law and religion to provide an overview of current issues in State-religion relations. The... Lees meer

Law, Cultural Diversity, and Criminal Defense

Craig L Carr, Lisa Johnson

• Paperback | Engels | Cultural Diversity and Law
• American legal scholars have debated for some time the need for a cultural defense in criminal proceedings where minority cultural information seems p... Lees meer

Judging in the Islamic, Jewish and Zoroastrian Legal Traditions

Janos Jany

• Hardcover | Engels | Cultural Diversity and Law
• This book presents a comparative analysis of the judiciary in the Islamic, Jewish and Zoroastrian legal systems. It compares postulations of legal the... Lees meer

State and Legal Practice in the Caucasus

• Paperback | Engels | Cultural Diversity and Law
• Legal pluralism and the experience of the state in the Caucasus are at the centre of this edited volume. This is a region affected by a multitude of l... Lees meer

Socio-Legal Integration

Agnieszka Kubal

• Hardcover | Engels | Cultural Diversity and Law
• This book examines how contemporary migrants form and transform their involvement with the law in their host countries and which factors influence thi... Lees meer

Access to Justice and Human Security

Sindiso Mnisi Weeks

• Paperback | Engels | Cultural Diversity and Law
• For most people in rural South Africa, traditional justice mechanisms provide the only feasible means of accessing any form of justice. These mechanis... Lees meer

Judging in the Islamic, Jewish and Zoroastrian Legal Traditions

Janos Jany

• Paperback | Engels | Cultural Diversity and Law
• This book presents a comparative analysis of the judiciary in the Islamic, Jewish and Zoroastrian legal systems. It compares postulations of legal the... Lees meer

Legal Practice and Cultural Diversity

• Hardcover | Engels | Cultural Diversity and Law
• Legal Practice and Cultural Diversity considers how contemporary cultural and religious diversity challenges legal practice, how legal practice respon... Lees meer

Islamic Law in Europe?

Andrea Büchler

• Paperback | Engels | Cultural Diversity and Law
• Cultural and religious identity and family law are inter-related in a number of ways and raise various complex issues. European legal systems have tak... Lees meer

Muslim Marriage in Western Courts

Pascale Fournier

• Hardcover | Engels | Cultural Diversity and Law
• This book describes and analyses the notion of Mahr, the Muslim custom whereby the groom has to give a gift to the bride in consideration of the marri... Lees meer

Shari'a as Discourse

• Paperback | Engels | Cultural Diversity and Law
• This volume exposes some of the various issues raised in relation to Muslim communities in Europe by putting the intellectual and legal traditions int... Lees meer

Courts, Pluralism and Law in the Everyday

Cinzia Piciocchi

• Hardcover | Engels | Cultural Diversity and Law
• This book examines the everyday judicial experience in four multicultural jurisdictions as a means of exploring the relationship between legal systems... Lees meer

African Customary Justice

Pnina Werbner, Richard Werbner

• Hardcover | Engels | Cultural Diversity and Law
• This book presents an important ethnographic and theoretical advance in legal anthropological scholarship by interrogating customary law, customary co... Lees meer

The State and the Paradox of Customary Law in Africa

• Hardcover | Engels | Cultural Diversity and Law
• Customary law and traditional authorities continue to play highly complex and contested roles in contemporary African states. Reversing the common pre... Lees meer

Between Cultural Diversity and Common Heritage

• Hardcover | Engels | Cultural Diversity and Law
• Going beyond the more usual focus on Jerusalem as a sacred place, this book presents legal perspectives on the most important sacred places of the Med... Lees meer

Legal Pluralism in the Holy City

Ido Shahar

• Hardcover | Engels | Cultural Diversity and Law
• This book offers fresh perspectives on the phenomenon of legal pluralism, on shari'a law in practice and on Palestinian-Israeli relations in the divid... Lees meer

Muslim Families, Politics and the Law

Ralph Grillo

• Paperback | Engels | Cultural Diversity and Law
• Contemporary European societies are multi-ethnic and multi-cultural, certainly in terms of the diversity which has stemmed from the immigration of wor... Lees meer

Legal Practice and Cultural Diversity

• Paperback | Engels | Cultural Diversity and Law
• Legal Practice and Cultural Diversity considers how contemporary cultural and religious diversity challenges legal practice, how legal practice respon... Lees meer

Socio-Legal Integration

Agnieszka Kubal

• Paperback | Engels | Cultural Diversity and Law
• This book examines how contemporary migrants form and transform their involvement with the law in their host countries and which factors influence thi... Lees meer

Law and Religion in the 21st Century

• Paperback | Engels | Cultural Diversity and Law
• Law and Religion in the 21st Century brings together leading international scholars of law and religion to provide an overview of current issues in St... Lees meer

Legal Pluralism in the Holy City

Ido Shahar

• Paperback | Engels | Cultural Diversity and Law
• This book provides an unprecedented portrayal of a lively shari'a court in contemporary West Jerusalem, which belongs to the Israeli legal system but ... Lees meer

Minorities and Nationalism in Turkish Law

Derya Bayir

• Paperback | Engels | Cultural Diversity and Law
• Examining the on-going dilemma of the management of diversity in Turkey from a historical and legal perspective, this book argues that the state's fai... Lees meer