"As individuals travel across borders, societies have become more and more pluralistic. The result of increased migration is the interaction among cultural communities and inevitably clashes between state law and customary law. These cultural conflicts have given rise to a new multicultural jurisprudence. In this volume scholars grapple with the immense challenges judges are currently experiencing everywhere. To what extent can and should courts accommodate litigants' requests by taking their cultural backgrounds into account? This collection brings together powerful examples of the cultural…
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3 editions
Other · English · 2009
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc · 9781282159778
Other · English · 2009
Hart Publishing · 378 pages · 9781841138954
Other · English · 2009
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc · 9781847314819
Sociological aspectsDefense (Civil procedure)Sociological jurisprudenceCultural defense (Law)Law and legislationActions and defensesDefense (Criminal procedure)Cultural pluralism
