Law at work : studies in legal ethnomethods
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Law at work : studies in legal ethnomethods
(Oxford studies in language and law / Roger W. Shuy, series editor)
Oxford University Press, c2015
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  Iwate
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  Fukushima
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  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
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  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
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  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
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  Tokushima
  Kagawa
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  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
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  Okinawa
  Korea
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  United Kingdom
  Germany
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  France
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The studies in this volume use ethnographic, ethnomethodological, and sociolinguistic research to demonstrate how legal agents conduct their practices and exercise their authority in relation to non-expert participants and broader publics. Instead of treating law as a body of doctrines, or law and society as a relationship between legal institutions and an external society, the studies in this volume closely examine law at work: specific legal practices and social
interactions produced in national and international settings. These settings include courtrooms and other tribunals, consultations between lawyers and clients, and media forums in which government officials address international law. Because law is a public institution, and legal actions are publicly
accountable, technical law must interface with non-expert members of the public. The embodied actions and interactions that comprise the interface between professional and lay participants in legal settings therefore must do justice to legal traditions and statutory obligations while also contending with mundane interactional routines, ordinary reasoning, and popular expectations.
Specific chapters examine topics such as family disputes in a system of Sharia Law; rhetorical contestations about possible violations of international law during a violent conflict in the Middle-East; the transformation of a courtroom hearing brought about by the virtual presence of remote witnesses relayed through a video link; the practices through which written records are used to mediate and leverage a witness's testimony; and the discursive and interactional practices through which
authorized parties use legal categories to problems with individual conduct. Each chapter shows that it makes a profound difference to the way we understand the law when we examine its meaning and application in practice.
Table of Contents
- Introduction: Law at Work
- Baudouin Dupret, Michael Lynch, and Tim Berard
- Section I. Practical Action, Situated Interaction, and the Salience of Law
- The Editors
- Chapter One: The Practical Grammar of Law and Its Relation to Time
- Baudouin Dupret and Jean-Noel Ferrie
- Chapter Two: Aspiring Magistrates: Entry Exams and General Traineeship at the Court of Lecce
- Luisa Zappulli and Karen Latricia Hough
- Chapter Three: Practical Solutions: Praxiologial Analysis of Judgments in Civil Hearings
- Pedtro Heitor Barros Geraldo
- Section II. Practical Pedagogies in the Performance of Legal Activities
- The Editors
- Chapter Four: Hearing Clients' Talk as Lawyers' Work: The Case of Public Legal Consultation Conference
- Shiro Kashimura
- Chapter Five: Producing Records of Testimony: Some Competent Legal Methods for Incompetent Trials
- Kenneth Liberman
- Section III. Speech, Text, and Technology in Testimony
- The Editors
- Chapter Six: Reporting Talk When Testifying: Intertextuality, Consistency and Transformation in Witnesses Use of Direct Reported Speech
- Renata Galatolo
- Chapter Seven: Turning a Witness: The Textual and Interactional Production of a Statement in Adversarial Testimony
- Michael Lynch
- Chapter Eight : "Is there someone in my videoconference room?" Managing Remote Witnesses in Distributed Courtrooms
- Christian Licoppe and Laurence Dumoulin
- Section IV. Deviance, Membership Categories, and Legalities
- The Editors
- Chapter Nine: Hate Crimes, Labels, and Accounts: Pragmatic Reflections on U.S. Hate Crimes
- Tim Berard
- Chapter Ten: Descriptions of Deviance: Making the Case for Professional Help
- Stephen Hester and Sally Hester
- Chapter Eleven: Discursive Cartographies, Moral Practices: International Law and the Gaza War
- Lena Jayyusi
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