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Paradox of Legal Entitlement
Sally Engle Merry
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Description for Paradox of Legal Entitlement
Paperback. Series: Language & Legal Discourse S. Num Pages: 238 pages, 8tabs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JH; LNB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 151 x 15. Weight in Grams: 382.
Ordinary Americans often bring family and neighborhood problems to court, seeking justice or revenge. The litigants in these local squabbles encounter law at its boundaries in the corridors of busy city courthouses, in the offices of court clerks, and in the church parlors used by mediation programs.
Getting Justice and Getting Even concerns the legal consciousness of working class Americans and their experiences with court and mediation. Following cases into and through the courts, Sally Engle Merry provides an ethnographic study of local law and of the people who use it in a New England city. The litigants, ... Read more
Ordinary Americans often bring family and neighborhood problems to court, seeking justice or revenge. The litigants in these local squabbles encounter law at its boundaries in the corridors of busy city courthouses, in the offices of court clerks, and in the church parlors used by mediation programs.
Getting Justice and Getting Even concerns the legal consciousness of working class Americans and their experiences with court and mediation. Following cases into and through the courts, Sally Engle Merry provides an ethnographic study of local law and of the people who use it in a New England city. The litigants, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1990
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
238
Condition
New
Series
Language & Legal Discourse S.
Number of Pages
238
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226520698
SKU
V9780226520698
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