Legal practice and cultural diversity /

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Imprint:Farnham, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Pub., c2009.
Description:xiv, 345 p. ; 25 cm.
Language:English
Series:Cultural diversity and law
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7733336
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Other authors / contributors:Grillo, R. D.
ISBN:9780754675471 (alk. paper)
0754675475 (alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Legal practice and cultural diversity: introduction
  • Cultural diversity: challenge and accommodation
  • Indian secular pluralism and its relevance for Europe
  • Legal pluralism and differentiated morality: Shari'a in Ontario?
  • Transforming to accommodate? Reflections on the Shari'a debate in Britain
  • Shari'a in a European context
  • Objection, Your Honour! Accommodating niqab-wearing women in courtrooms
  • The challenge of African customary laws to English legal culture
  • Religious challenges to the secularized identity of an insecure polity: a tentative sociology of Québec's 'reasonable accommodation' debate
  • Does the Dutch judiciary pluralize domestic law?
  • The influence of culture on the determination of damages: how cultural relativism affects the analysis of trauma
  • Jews and Muslims in France; changing responses to cultural and religious diversity
  • L'affaire du foulard in the shadow of the Strasbourg court: Article 9 and the public career of the veil in France
  • The changing position of religious minorities in English law: the legacy of Begum
  • Approaches to diversity in the domestic courts: Article 9 of the European Convention on Human Rights
  • Human rights in contexts of ethnic plurality: always a vehicle for liberation?
  • Index