Legal practice and cultural diversity
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Legal practice and cultural diversity
(Cultural diversity and law)
Ashgate, c2009
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Legal Practice and Cultural Diversity considers how contemporary cultural and religious diversity challenges legal practice, how legal practice responds to that challenge, and how practice is changing in the encounter with the cultural diversity occasioned by large-scale, post-war immigration. Locating actual practices and interpretations which occur in jurisprudence and in public discussion, this volume examines how the wider environment shapes legal processes and is in turn shaped by them. In so doing, the work foregrounds a number of themes principally relating to changing norms and practices and sensitivity to cultural and religious difference in the application of the law. Comparative in approach, this study places particular cases in their widest context, taking into account international and transnational influences on the way in which actors, legal and other, respond.
Table of Contents
- Contents: Legal practice and cultural diversity: introduction, Roger Ballard, Alessandro Ferrari, Ralph Grillo, Andre J. Hoekema, Marcel Maussen and Prakash Shah
- Cultural diversity: challenge and accommodation, Roger Ballard, Alessandro Ferrari, Ralph Grillo, Andre J. Hoekema, Marcel Maussen and Prakash Shah
- Indian secular pluralism and its relevance for Europe, Werner Menski
- Legal pluralism and differentiated morality: Shari'a in Ontario?, Veit Bader
- Transforming to accommodate? Reflections on the Shari'a debate in Britain, Prakash Shah
- Shari'a in a European context, Mathias Rohe
- Objection, Your Honour! Accommodating niqab-wearing women in courtrooms, Natasha Bakht
- The challenge of African customary laws to English legal culture, Gordon R. Woodman
- Religious challenges to the secularized identity of an insecure polity: a tentative sociology of Quebec's 'reasonable accommodation' debate, Jean-FranAois Gaudreault-DesBiens
- Does the Dutch judiciary pluralize domestic law?, Andre J. Hoekema
- The influence of culture on the determination of damages: how cultural relativism affects the analysis of trauma, Alison Dundes Renteln
- Jews and Muslims in France
- changing responses to cultural and religious diversity, Martine Cohen
- L'affaire du foulard in the shadow of the Strasbourg court: Article 9 and the public career of the veil in France, Claire de Galembert
- The changing position of religious minorities in English law: the legacy of Begum, Russell Sandberg
- Approaches to diversity in the domestic courts: Article 9 of the European Convention on Human Rights, Samantha Knights
- Human rights in contexts of ethnic plurality: always a vehicle for liberation?, Roger Ballard
- Index.
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