Full Description
This volume addresses practical concerns of how to create space for legal anthropology in both law and anthropology programmes, and also more conceptual issues such as the ethnographic examination of the 'culture' of legal institutions and systems of state laws. It is based on testimonies from anthropologists teaching in anthropology departments, and legal scholars incorporating anthropology into their law curricula, and teaching fundamental aspects of legal thinking to anthropology students. Starting from an acknowledgement that anthropologists and lawyers still often regard one another with a degree of suspicion, the authors try to bridge the apparent epistemological and ontological gulf separating the disciplines. They do so by emphasizing both the need for law students to go beyond the standard approach to law based on state-centred positivism and open their eyes to the normative diversity that exists in all plural societies. At the same time, they stress the need for anthropologists to have a solid foundation in law, legal practice, and legal procedure to more effectively deal with a number of explicitly legal issues that are emerging as important concerns to anthropologists. The collection also addresses the issue of preparing anthropologists to apply their expertise in legal settings as expert witnesses and consultants.
Contents
Introduction - Marie-Claire Foblets, Gordon Woodman and Anthony Bradney; Part I: Law in Anthropology; 1: Teaching Refugee Law to Anthropologists - Anthony Good; 2: Teaching Anthropology of Law at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris) - Yazid Ben Hounet and Mickaelle Lantin-Mallet (with contributions from Daniela Berti, Deborah Puccio-Den and Gilles Tarabout); 3: Teaching and Studying Law and Anthropology at the LSE: Students and Staff in Conversation - Emmanuel Melissaris, Vasiliki Liaki, Grace Pollard, Alain Pottage, Ignacio Riquelme Espinosa, and Francesca Uberti; 4: Legal Anthropology as a Scientific and Applied Discipline in Russia - Natalya Novikova; 5: The Three Waves of Legal Pluralism at Warwick - Ralf Rogowski; 6: Anthropological Approaches to Law and Legal Pluralism in Africa: Teaching Experiences at the University of Bayreuth - Ulrike Wanitzek and Laura Viviane de Leeuw; Part II: Anthropology in Law; 7: Addressing Legal Anthropology in a Global World: Challenges and Perspectives in Law Schools - Lucia Bellucci; 8: Legal Anthropology in Undergraduate Legal Education in the United Kingdom - Anthony Bradney; 9: Teaching Legal Anthropology to Legal Practitioners - André Hoekema; 10: Teaching Anthropology and Sociology of Law in a German Law Faculty - Armin Höland; 11: Teaching Legal Anthropology in Various Faculties of the University of Vienna - René Kuppe; 12: Worlds Apart: Attempts to Bring Law Students Closer to an Anthropological Understanding of Customary Law - Gordon Woodman; 13: Insights for a Critical Reflection on Law - Wibo van Rossum; 14: The Place of Empirical Research in Legal Education at the Radboud University - Ashley Terlouw and Laurens Bakker; Part III: Anthropology and other (Inter)disciplinary Approaches to Law; 15: Anthropology and Transnational Legal Education: Some Ambitious Reflections Based on Humble Experience - César Arjona; 16: Teaching and Conceptualizing Conflict and Peace in the Field of Legal Anthropology - Birgit Bräuchler; 17: The Contribution of Anthropology to Teaching Comparative and International Law - Francis Snyder; 18: Teaching 'Law, Governance and Development': Taking Stock after 30 Years - Jan Michiel Otto; 19: How Would You Know? Prejudices Against Anthropologists Teaching Human Right - Reetta Toivanen;
