Race, Ethnicity, Nationality and the Law - Legal Paradoxes in Conceptualization and Operationalization

This book provides a complex insight into how law, as a distinct tool and technology, conceptualizes and operationalizes race, ethnicity and nationality. The focus of the comparative project is specifically the morphology and dynamics of legal categorization.

List of contents

Foreword. Introduction: How to Read this Book - and Why PART I: CONCEPTUAL OVERVIEW AND INTRODUCTION 1. Conceptualization and operationalization: conceptual and legal overview 2. Contesting: passing, fraud, and assimilation PART II: PARADOXES IN CONCEPTUALIZATION AND OPERATIONALIZATION 3. Linguistic and teleological deficiencies and ambiguities in defining 4. The arbitrariness of conceptualization 5. The challenges and perils of subjectivism in operationalization 6. Objective operationalization schemes: The rebiologization of race 7. The menace of ethnoracial data-phobia Part III: CASE STUDIES 8. National Minorities 9. The Jewry 10. The Roma 11. The Indigenous 12. The Dalit and the case of caste 13. The Albino. Closing and Concluding Remarks. Bibliography

About the author

András L. Pap is Research Professor and Head of Department for Constitutional and Administrative Law at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences Centre of Excellence HUN-REN Centre for Social Sciences Institute for Legal Studies. He is also Professor of Law at the Faculty Economics at Eötvös University (ELTE) in Budapest. For twenty years he was Adjunct Professor in the Nationalism Studies Program at Central European University (CEU) in Budapest and Vienna.

Product details

• Authors: Andras L. Pap, András L. Pap
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 05.09.2025
• EAN: 9781032875774
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3287577-4
• No. of pages: 368
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; History, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, LAW / General, LAW / Legal History, HISTORY / Social History, HISTORY / Jewish, LAW / Constitutional, LAW / Jurisprudence, LAW / Civil Rights, LAW / Comparative, LAW / Discrimination, Religion: general, Political science & theory, Jewish Studies, Legal History, comparative law, Political science and theory, Public international law: human rights, International human rights law, Social groups: religious groups and communities, Constitutional & administrative law, Constitutional and administrative law: general, Jurisprudence & Philosophy Of Law, Methods, theory and philosophy of law, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / Holocaust