Adversarial Case-Making - An Ethnography of English Crown Court Procedure

This book explores the working of law and lawyers down to their very details and minituae.

About the author

Thomas Scheffer led the law-in-action Research Group. Currently he is Heisenberg scholar at the Institute for European Ethnology, Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany. He published on communication/ knowledge processes in migration control, social work, parliamentary inquiries, and legal casework. His research interests include micro-sociology, sociology of knowledge, political ethnography, and cultural comparison/translation. Scheffer is spokesperson of the section "sociology of law" in the German Sociological Association.

Product details

• Authors: Thomas Scheffer
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 24.09.2010
• EAN: 9789004187269
• ISBN: 978-90-04-18726-9
• No. of pages: 328
• Dimensions: 168 mm x 246 mm x 23 mm
• Weight: 658 g
• Series: International Studies in Socio
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law