Legalism : rules and categories

Legalism : rules and categories / edited by Paul Dresch, Judith Scheele.

Drawing on a wide range of historical and ethnographic examples, this volume elucidates the relationship between legal thinking and explicit rules and categories from a rigorously cross-cultural and comparative perspective.

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Dresch, Paul (Editor), Scheele, Judith, 1978- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2015.
Series:Legalism (Series) ; v. 3.
Subjects:
Law > Philosophy.
Rule of law.
Procedure (Law) > Philosophy.
LAW > Essays.
LAW > General Practice.
LAW > Jurisprudence.
LAW > Paralegals & Paralegalism.
LAW > Practical Guides.
LAW > Reference.
Law > Philosophy
Procedure (Law) > Philosophy
Rule of law
Law, General & Comparative.
Law, Politics & Government.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : rules and categories : an overview / Paul Dresch and Judith Scheele
  • Rules, culture, and imagination in Sanskrit jurisprudence / Donald R. Davis Jr.
  • Written law as words to live by / Paul Dresch
  • Telling stories about (Roman) law : rules and concepts in legal discourse / Caroline Humfress
  • Rules, proverbs, and persuasion : legalism and rhetoric in Tibet / Fernanda Pirie
  • 'Half-free' categories in the early Middle Ages : fine status distinctions before professional lawyers / Alice Rio
  • In praise of disorder : breaking the rules in northern Chad / Judith Scheele
  • A polyphony of rules and categories : the case of early Rus / Simon Franklin
  • Categories and consequences in Amazonia / Elizabeth Ewart
  • Legalism and the care of the self : Sharīʻa discourse in contemporary Lebanon / Morgan Clarke.

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