1st Edition
Legal Pluralism in Conflict Coping with Cultural Diversity in Law
By Prakash Shah
Copyright 2005
218 Pages
by
Routledge-Cavendish
218 Pages
by
Routledge-Cavendish
218 Pages
by
Routledge-Cavendish
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Legal Pluralism in Conflict offers a new theoretical perspective for conceptualising and analysing the relationship between ethnic minority laws and the official legal order.
Examining the limits of liberal legal thought in light of a contemporary plurality of ethnic identifications and religious beliefs, Prakash Shah takes up the case for a 'legal pluralism' that views ethnic minority laws... Read more
Chapter 1 Introduction: Legal Pluralism as a Tool for Ethnic Minority Studies; Chapter 2 Ethnic Minority Legal Studies: Towards a Jurisprudence of Difference; Chapter 3 The other Incoming Tide: The Diasporic Challenge to the British Constitutional Order; Chapter 4 Criminal (in)Justice in a Plural Society: South Asians and the English Law on Homicide; Chapter 5 Attitudes to Polygamy in English Law; Chapter 6 Bangladeshi Legal Pluralism and English Law; Chapter 7 Expert Opinions on South Asian Laws in Immigration Cases; Chapter 8 Who do we think we are? British Nationality in the European Context; conclusion Conclusion;
Biography
Prakash Shah
