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Special Issue Austin Sarat (Amherst College, USA)

Special Issue By Austin Sarat (Amherst College, USA)

Special Issue by Austin Sarat (Amherst College, USA)


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In this latest edition of this highly successful research series, chapters explore expert witnessing in asylum cases. Topics include: judicial ethnocentrism, political asylum, race identity and cultural defense.

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Special Issue: Cultural Expert Witnessing by Austin Sarat (Amherst College, USA)

Studies in Law, Politics, and Society provides a vehicle for the publication of scholarly articles within the broad parameters of interdisciplinary legal scholarship. In this latest edition of this highly successful research series, chapters examine a diverse range of legal issues and their impact on and intersections with society. This volume is a collection of chapters exploring expert witnessing in Asylum Cases. Topics covered include: judicial ethnocentrism, political asylum, race identity and cultural defense. This volume brings together leading scholars and will be vital reading for all those researching in this subject area.

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Anthropologists explore the use of cultural expert testimony as evidence in legal conflicts that invoke cultural difference. They address knowing the role of expert testimony in a cultural defense, reconciling the job of expert witness with other professional roles, relating to defendants versus informants, employing legal concepts that have little anthropological acceptance, producing testimony in changing historical and political contexts, and helping judges understand culture. -- Annotation (c)2018 * (protoview.com) *

About Austin Sarat (Amherst College, USA)

Austin Sarat is William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science at Amherst College, USA. He is also a Five College Fortieth Anniversary Professor. He has written, co-written, or edited more than fifty books in the fields of law and political science.

Table of Contents

Introduction; Leila Rodriguez 1. Expert Witnessing in Honduran Asylum Cases: What Difference Can Twenty Years Make?; James Phillips 2. Judicial Ethnocentrism vs Expert Witnesses in Asylum Cases; Murray J. Leaf 3. Guilt, Innocence, Informant; Jeffrey Cohen and Lexine Trask 4. Traversing Boundaries: Anthropology, Political Asylum and The Provision of Expert Witness; Kathleen Gallagher 5. Proving Race Identity of Chinese Indonesian Asylum Seekers; ChorSwang Ngin 6. State Your Case: Best Practices for Presenting a Cultural Defense in Criminal Litigation; Heather Crabbe, Esq.

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NGR9781787437647
9781787437647
1787437647
Special Issue: Cultural Expert Witnessing by Austin Sarat (Amherst College, USA)
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Hardback
Emerald Publishing Limited
2018-01-29
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