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  • Law at Work: Studies in Legal Ethnomethods

    Law at Work by Dupret, Baudouin; Lynch, Michael; Berard, Tim;

    Studies in Legal Ethnomethods

    Series: Oxford Studies in Language and Law;

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    Product details:

    • Publisher OUP USA
    • Date of Publication 20 August 2015

    • ISBN 9780190210243
    • Binding Hardback
    • No. of pages320 pages
    • Size 234x157x25 mm
    • Weight 612 g
    • Language English
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    Short description:

    This collection of empirical studies addresses many questions about the conduct of law in practice by treating law as a relationship between legal institutions and an external society.

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    Long 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.

    The book offers a distinctive ethnomethodological approach to legal activities and insights into the study of law at work... The volume is very well organized and highly cohesive so that individual chapters clearly contribute to each wider topic. It will be very valuable for anyone interested in the ethnomethodological approaches to law today since it provides an excellent overview of the field, and offers a collection of articles that are interesting, informative, and well written. Overall, this is a highly relevant, well researched and well-edited book which will certainly inspire future research. It will be of interest to anyone interested in legal interactions and discourse.in the legal settings.

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    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-Noël 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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