Religion, Race, Rights: Landmarks in the History of Modern Anglo-American Law
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| Rating | : | 4.34 (518 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1841137294 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 332 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-08-07 |
| Language | : | English |
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Drawing upon landmark legal decisions and historical events, the book emphasises that justice is not blind because our concept of justice changes over time and is linked to economic power, social values, and moral sensibilities that are neither universal nor apolitical. Highlighting the historical interconnections between religion, race and rights aids our understanding of contemporary socio-legal issues. This ignores the cultural specificity of western legal concepts, and prevents us from appreciating that, analogous to previous colonial periods, in a global political economy Anglo-American law is not always transportable, transferable, or translatable across political landscapes and religious communities.. The author challenges the assumption that law is an objective, rational and secular enterprise by showing that the rule of law is historically grounded and linked to the particularities of Christian morality, the f
. Eve Darian-Smith practiced law in Australia before obtaining her MA degree (Harvard) and her PhD degree (Chicago) in cultural anthropology. She has published a number of books and articles including Bridging Divides: The Channel Tunnel and English Legal Identity in the New Europe (1999) which won the Law & Society Association Herbert Jacob Book Prize, as well as New Capitalists: Law, Politics and Identity Surrounding Casino Gaming on Native American Land (2003) and Ethnography and Law (2006)
"Five Stars" according to Viet Duong. good product
She does so with clarity, insight, and sensitivity. Once you read this book you will never again think that the western concept of individual rights is sufficient to resolve the contradictions of modern existence. This wonderfully readable book is imaginatively organized around a series of eight landmark 'law moments' that ingeniously show how legal rights are always being subtly shaped by culturally prevailing ideas about religion and race, a process that still goes on in our supposedly 21st century secular world that claims to be free of racism.' Richard Falk, Albert G. I have already recommended the book to one colleague/friend at Berkeley and will continue to recommend it to others. It works across discip