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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Legal Anthropology"”.
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The Nature of Law and Legality in the Byzantine Canonical Collections 381-883
… work seeks to explore the nature of law and legality in the Byzantine canonical tradition through a careful reading of the central texts of the Byzantine canonical corpus. The principal topics to be considered include the shape and growth of the corpus as a whole, the content and themes of …
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The making of regulatory independence
… an analytical framework based on scholarship in legal anthropology, this study provides elements of an answer based on an insider’s view of regulation, illuminating the complex, messy, and political nature of what may seem from the outside as calm and neutral application of technical expertise. …
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Dispositifs de conservation écorégionale et droits indigènes dans l’Amazonie Bolivienne: Les cas des Peuples du Madidi et Pilón Lajas
… planning. These have entered the Bolivian legal system from the 80 which coincides with the modernization of the state, an ambitious development plan supported by the implementation of neoliberal measures to promote economic growth, administrative decentralization as a new form to exercise …
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The Development of the Justice in Ancient Egypt from the Old to the Middle Kingdom
… harnessing recent theoretical developments in legal anthropology and ethnographic comparanda from a variety of more recent Egyptian and wider African societies which appear to have parallels with the Ancient Egyptian model. A key argument proposed is that Egyptian justice exhibited a high …
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Becoming mixed: mixed marriages of Bosnia-Herzegovina during the life and death of Yugoslavia
… these via a variety of methodologies—from legal anthropology to autobiography and oral history—the dissertation aims to move the discussion of mixed marriage in the former Yugoslavia beyond the polarizing and, by now stale, debates of the 1990s. More specifically, it uses mixed marriage not …
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THE CONSERVATION AND PROMOTION OF THE 'CULTURAL HERITAGE OF MANKIND': WHICH OBLIGATIONS UNDER INTERNATIONAL LAW?
… anthropological studies – and, in particular, of legal anthropology and cultural anthropology. Coming up, as the result of the analysis, with an overview on the current scope and features, as well as of the remarkable existing discrepancies and intrinsic shortcomings, currently entailed within the …
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Law Without Recognition: The Lack of Judicial Discretion to Consider Individual Lives and Legal Equities in United States Immigration Law
… factors (such as racial attitudes) and the legal definitions of what sorts of immigration were permissible or excludable differed over time. Since the 1990s, hostile attitudes towards certain immigrants have been represented in laws to a greater and greater extent, most significantly with …
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Fractured identities and fragments of power: the influence of the European Union on the Italian judicial system as seen through the lens of the struggle for rights on behalf of same-sex couples
… I describe the ongoing struggle over legal recognition of rights for same-sex couples in Italy and demonstrate how in Italy, a nation where (for a myriad of historical, social, and political reasons) there is little faith in the ability of state institutions to reckon with societal …