Social Courts in Theory and Practice : : Yugoslav Workers' Courts in Comparative Perspective / / Robert M. Hayden.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Press Package Archive 1898-1999
• VerfasserIn: Hayden, Robert M.,
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2016]; ©1991
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Edition: Reprint 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Law in Social Context
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (204 p.)

This ethnographic study of a socialist labor court discusses the nature of social courts, which are judicial institutions staffed by lay people rather than lawyers.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Part I: The Problem and the Research -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. The Question of Method: An Ethnographic Study of a Court of Associated Labor -- Part II: Courts and Law In Modern Yugoslavia -- Chapter 3. Yugoslav S elf-Management and Law -- Chapter 4. Courts in Modern Yugoslavia -- Chapter 5. The Courts of Associated Labor, 1974 to 1984: Formal Structure -- Part III: The Case Study of the CAL In Belgrade -- Chapter 6. The Court and the Research -- Chapter 7. Cases Brought to the CAL; or, Who Uses the Court, and for What? -- Chapter 8. Participation in the CAL Process; or, Who Talks, About What? -- Part IV: Court Use as a Political Issue -- Chapter 9. Political Debates Over the CAL, 1981 to 1985 -- Chapter 10. Conclusions: The Courts of Associated Labor in Comparative Perspective -- Epilogue, March 1990: The Demise of the CALs? -- Notes -- Abbreviations -- Bibliography -- Index -- Backmatter