Understanding Law in Micronesia : : An Interpretive Approach to Transplanted Law / / Brian Z. Tamanaha.

• Superior document: Studies in Human Society Series ; Volume 7
• VerfasserIn: Tamanaha, Brian Z.,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands : : Brill,, [1993]; ©1993
• Year of Publication: 1993
• Edition: First edition.
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in human society ; Volume 7.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (viii, 214 pages)

Examines law in Micronesia through a focus on the meaningful actions and understandings of legal actors and non-legal actors. It addresses subjects which range from the nature of legal thinking to the autonomy of law.

Table of Contents

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Chapter One. Introduction -- Existing Approaches to Transplanted Law -- A. The Law and Development Movement -- B. Legal Culture -- C. Legal Anthropology and Legal Pluralism -- Understanding (Law in Micronesia) -- (Understanding Law) in Micronesia -- Thesis -- Chapter Two. The Setting -- Law from Afar -- Actors -- A. Expatriate Lawyer -- B. Micronesian Lawyer -- C. Non-Lawyer Micronesian Legal Actors -- D. Micronesian Non-Legal Actors -- Legal discourse -- A. Legal Language is English -- B. Legal Language -- C. Stylized Mode of Discourse -- When a Judge Is a Judge -- A Case of Translation -- Law's Resistance -- People behind the Law -- Leaving the Setting -- Chapter Three. Theory Talk -- Mundane Phenomenology of Alfred Schutz -- A. Intersubjectivity, Thought, and Social Interaction -- B. Methodology: Intersubjective Meaning and Ideal Types -- C. Softening Schutz's Objectivism -- Geertz's Cultural Hermeneutics: Thick Description -- Schutz and Geertz, and Their Shared Weakness -- Self-serving Note on Methodology -- Chapter Four. Law in Interpretive Terms -- Legal Institution as a Complex of Connected Actions -- Elements of Law -- Internal Legal Attitude of the U.S. Legal tradition -- A. Law as a Separate Reality -- B. Judging: Cognitive Style and Patterns of Thought -- A Claim to Plausibility -- Chapter Five. Back to Micronesia -- Communities of Mixed Thought and Mixed Communities of Thought -- A. The Concept Culture -- B. Two Senses of Mixed Culture -- C. A Stranger in the Community -- Inside the Legal Arena -- A. Expatriate Lawyers in the Internal Legal Attitude -- B. Micronesian Lawyers in the Internal Legal Attitude -- C. Non-Lawyer Micronesian Legal Actors' Experience of Law -- D. Impact of Non-Lawyer Judges on Operation of Legal System.

E. Countervailing Poles -- Seeing Something Else When Looking at Law -- A. The Ideology of Law -- B. Law as a Symbol -- C. Legal Institutions and Legal System -- D. What They Do See -- E. Law at a Distance -- F. Advantage of Positive Knowledge about Law -- G. Cross-Cultural Interaction within a Community -- Chapter Six. An Autonomous Law -- The Autonomy of Law -- Figuration Theory -- National and State Level Figurations -- Three Types of Autonomy -- Chapter Seven. Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.