The role of social science in law / edited by Elizabeth Mertz.
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| Language: | English |
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Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT :
Ashgate,
[2008]
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| Series: | International library of essays in law and society.
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Table of Contents:
- Pt. I. Problematizing and Analysing Translation: The Transparency Myth
- The Transparency Myth: Translation or Transformation?
- 1. Intellectual Integration / James Boyd White
- 2. Judicial Use of Social Science Research / John Monahan and Laurens Walker
- Translation Problems and the Death Penalty
- 3. Uses and Abuses of Empirical Evidence in the Death Penalty Debate / John J. Donohue and Justin Wolfers
- 4. The Changing Nature of Death Penalty Debates / Michael L. Radelet and Marian J. Borg
- 5. The Death Penalty Dialogue Between Law and Social Science / David C. Baldus
- Pt. II. Translating Social Science in Legal Settings
- Across Divergent Frames
- 6. Teaching Lawyers the Language of Law: Legal and Anthropological Translations / Elizabeth Mertz
- 7. Can Law Learn from Social Science? / David Nelken
- 8. Law and the Methodology of Law / Edward L. Rubin
- 9. Legal Perceptions of Science and Expert Knowledge / Joseph Sanders, Shari S. Diamond and Neil Vidmar
- Discrimination in the Civil Law Context
- 10. Jurisprudence / Edmond Cahn
- 11. The Future of Bakke: Will Social Science Matter? / Deborah Jones Merritt
- 12. Social Science Research on Trial: Use of Sex Stereotyping Research in Price Waterhouse v. Hopkins / Susan T. Fiske, Donald N. Bersof, Eugene Borgida, Kay Deaux and Madeline E. Heilman
- Pt. III. Professional, Institutional and Wider Sociocultural Contexts of Translation
- Legal Decisions in Diverse Settings
- 13. Observations on an Uncomfortable Relationship: Civil Procedure and Empirical Research / Bryant G. Garth
- 14. Some Philosophical Resources for an Account of Truth Practices in the American Trial / Robert P. Burns
- 15. Knowledge on Tap: Police Science and Common Knowledge in the Legal Regulation of Drunkenness / Ron Levi and Mariana Valverde
- 16. The Professional Responsibility of Professional Schools to Study and Teach About the Profession / David B. Wilkins
- Family Violence
- 17. Ambiguous Responsibilities: Law and Conflicting Expert Testimony on the Abused Woman who Shot her Sleeping Husband / Renee Romkens
- 18. Should Judges Close the Gate on PAS and PA? / R. James Williams
- Pt. IV. Informed and Critical Translations
- Information and Critique
- 19. Using Psychology to Control Law: From Deceptive Advertising to Criminal Sentencing / Shari Seidman Diamond
- 20. The Anthropologist as Expert Witness / Lawrence Rosen
- 21. Critical Traditions in Law and Society Research / Susan S. Silbey and Austin Sarat Law, Social Science and Social Struggle
- 22. The Criminality of Genocide: The Death and Rape of Darfur / John Hagan, Wenona Rymond-Richmond and Patricia Parker
- 23. Legally Mediated Identity: The National Environmental Policy Act and the Bureaucratic Construction of Interests / Wendy Espeland
- 24. Cultural Politics in an Age of Statistics: Numbers, Nations, and the Making Basque Identity / Jacqueline Urla