Legal Pluralism in Conflict: Coping With Cultural Diversity in Law

Informationen zum Autor Prakash Shah Klappentext Legal Pluralism in Conflict offers a new theoretical perspective for conceptualizing and analyzing the relationship between ethnic minority laws and the official legal order. Zusammenfassung Offers a theoretical perspective for conceptualising and analysing the relationship between ethnic minority laws and the official legal order. This book pursues a series of case studies that critically consider why and how state laws marginalise ethnic minority legal orders. It is useful to students and researchers. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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;

Product details

• Authors: Shah Prakash, Johnson Shah, Prakash Shah, Prakash (Queen Mary Shah
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.09.2005
• EAN: 9781904385585
• ISBN: 978-1-904385-58-5
• No. of pages: 220
• Dimensions: 145 mm x 223 mm x 16 mm
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies, LAW / General, Ethnic groups and multicultural studies, Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Biracial & Multiracial Studies, Law & society, Law and society, sociology of law