Mapping Marriage Law in Spanish Gitano Communities

Mapping Marriage Law in Spanish Gitano Communities
Author: Susan Drummond
Publisher: UBC Press
Total Pages: 287
Release: 2011-11-01
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0774841486

Susan Drummond investigates what happens when the voices of comparative law and legal anthropology are invited to speak to each other. She forges this hybrid form of comparative work through small- and large-scale studies of Gitano marriage law as it emerges in a Western European state, in a modern urban centre, and in particular communities and families. Ultimately, she brings the international, national, and cultural dimensions of law into play with one another and contemplates how all of these influences bear on the spirit of Andalusian Gitano marriage law. The result is an ethos of marriage law in a thoroughly mixed legal jurisdiction.

Mapping Marriage Law in Spanish Gitano Communities

Mapping Marriage Law in Spanish Gitano Communities
Author: Susan Gay Drummond
Publisher: UBC Press
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2006
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0774809256

Comparative law and legal anthropology have traditionally restricted themselves to their own fields of inquiry. Mapping Marriage Law in Spanish Gitano Communities turns this tendency on its head and investigates what happens when the voices of each discipline are invited to speak to each other. Susan Drummond forges this hybrid form of comparative work through small- and large-scale studies of Gitano marriage law as it emerges in a Western European state, in a modern urban centre, and in particular communities and families. Drummond’s mapping of Gitano marriage law is grounded in ethnographic fieldwork in Andalucia. The study draws initially from the tradition of comparative law to focus on the emergence of Spanish state family law in a predominantly national and international context. Drummond then adopts the role of legal anthropologist to examine a particular legal culture that exists within, and also beyond, the Spanish state: that of the Gitanos and the transnational Roma. Ultimately, she brings the international, national, and cultural dimensions of law into play with one another and contemplates how all of these influences bear on the spirit of Andalusian Gitano marriage law. The result is an ethos of marriage law in a thoroughly mixed legal jurisdiction. Mapping Marriage Law in Spanish Gitano Communities will appeal to scholars and students in comparative law and legal anthropology, as well as readers interested in Roma studies in general, and the Gitanos in particular.

Laws and Societies in the Canadian Prairie West, 1670-1940

Laws and Societies in the Canadian Prairie West, 1670-1940
Author: Louis A. Knafla
Publisher: UBC Press
Total Pages: 361
Release: 2011-11-01
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0774841451

Challenging myths about a peaceful west and prairie exceptionalism, the book explores the substance of prairie legal history and the degree to which the region's mentality is rooted in the historical experience of distinctive prairie peoples. The ways in which prairie peoples perceived themselves and their relationships to a wider world were directly framed by notions of law and legal remedy shaped by the course and themes of prairie history. Legal history is not just about black letter law. It is also deeply concerned with the ways in which people affect and are affected by the law in their daily lives. By examining how central and important the law has been to individuals, communities, and societies in the Canadian Prairies, this book makes an original contribution.

Laws and Societies in Global Contexts

Laws and Societies in Global Contexts
Author: Eve Darian-Smith
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 433
Release: 2013-01-31
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0521113784

This text promotes a more global sociolegal perspective that engages with multiple laws and societies and diverse sociolegal systems based on very different historical and cultural traditions, interacting on multiple local, national, and global levels. The approach to global legal pluralism seeks to provide a framework for envisioning new global governance regimes that move beyond state-based solutions to deal with trenchant transnational challenges.

Multijuralism

Multijuralism
Author: Albert Breton
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 205
Release: 2017-11-28
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1351152866

At one level of generality, multijuralism is the coexistence of two or more legal systems or sub-systems within a broader normative legal order to which they adhere, such as the existence of civil and common law systems within the EU. However, at a finer level of analysis multijuralism is a more widespread or common phenomenon and a more fluid reality than the civil law/common law distinction suggests. The papers in this study are therefore rooted in the latter frame of reference. They explore various types of multijural manifestations from the harmonizing potential of international treaties to indigenous law and the use of hard and soft pluralism. In addition, the authors consider the external events which are not part of the processes of multijural adjustment but which serve to influence these processes. Included among these important external events are European integration, the growing importance accorded to human rights, the international practice of law, the growth of the Internet, the globalization of markets and the flow of immigrants. This volume represents some of the most current thinking in the area of multijuralism and is essential reading for anyone interested in the coexistence of legal systems or sub-systems.

A Cosmopolitan Jurisprudence

A Cosmopolitan Jurisprudence
Author: Helge Dedek
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 325
Release: 2021-12-16
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1108841724

Inspired by comparative law scholar Patrick Glenn's work, an international group of legal scholars explores the state of the discipline.

Framing the Global

Framing the Global
Author: Hilary E. Kahn
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 353
Release: 2014-05-22
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0253012996

Framing the Global explores new and interdisciplinary approaches to the study of global issues. Essays are framed around the entry points or key concepts that have emerged in each contributor's engagement with global studies in the course of empirical research, offering a conceptual toolkit for global research in the 21st century.

Law and Social Theory

Law and Social Theory
Author: Reza Banakar
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 694
Release: 2014-07-18
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1782252045

There is a growing interest within law schools in the intersections between law and different areas of social theory. The second edition of this popular text introduces a wide range of traditions in sociology and the humanities that offer provocative, contextual views on law and legal institutions. The book is organised into six sections, each with an introduction by the editors, on classical sociology of law, systems theory, critical approaches, law in action, postmodernism, and law in global society. Each chapter is written by a specialist who reviews the literature, and discusses how the approach can be used in researching different topics. New chapters include authoritative reviews of actor network theory, new legal realism, critical race theory, post-colonial theories of law, and the sociology of the legal profession. Over half the chapters are new, and the rest are revised in order to include discussion of recent literature.

Transforming Law's Family

Transforming Law's Family
Author: Fiona Kelly
Publisher: UBC Press
Total Pages: 234
Release: 2011-05-15
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0774819650

In Transforming Law's Family, Fiona Kelly explores the complex issues encountered by planned lesbian families as they work to define their parental rights, roles, and family structures within the tenets of family law. While Canadian courts recognize lesbian parenthood in some circumstances, a number of issues that are largely unique to planned lesbian families � such as the legal status of known sperm donors and non-biological mothers � remain undefined. Drawing on interviews with lesbian mothers, Fiona Kelly illuminates the changing definitions of family and suggests a model for law reform that would enable the legal recognition of alternative forms of parentage.

The Grand Experiment

The Grand Experiment
Author: Hamar Foster
Publisher: UBC Press
Total Pages: 416
Release: 2009-07-01
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0774858559

The essays in this volume reflect the exciting new directions in which legal history in the settler colonies of the British Empire has developed. The contributors show how local life and culture in selected settlements influenced, and was influenced by, the ideology of the rule of law that accompanied the British colonial project. Exploring themes of legal translation, local understandings, judicial biography, and "law at the boundaries," they examine the legal cultures of dominions in Canada, Australia, and New Zealand to provide a contextual and comparative account of the "incomplete implementation of the British constitution" in these colonies.