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UNINA9910457138003321 |
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Tamanaha Brian Z |
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Beyond the formalist-realist divide [[electronic resource] ] : the role of politics in judging / / Brian Z. Tamanaha |
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Princeton, NJ, : Princeton University Press, c2010 |
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1-282-45859-0 |
9786612458590 |
1-4008-3198-9 |
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[Course Book] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (265 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Judges - United States |
Judicial process - United States |
Law - Political aspects - United States |
Law - United States - Philosophy |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction -- Part One. The Legal Formalists -- 2. The Myth about Beliefs in the Common Law -- 3. The Myth about "Mechanical Jurisprudence" -- 4. The Holes in the Story about Legal Formalism -- Part Two. The Legal Realists -- 5. Realism before the Legal Realists -- 6. A Reconstruction of Legal Realism -- Part Three. Studies of Judging -- 7. The Slant in the "Judicial Politics" Field -- 8. What Quantitative Studies of Judging Have Found -- Part Four. Legal Theory -- 9. The Emptiness of "Formalism" in Legal Theory -- 10. Beyond the Formalist-Realist Divide -- Afterword -- Notes -- Index |
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According to conventional wisdom in American legal culture, the 1870's to 1920's was the age of legal formalism, when judges believed that the law was autonomous and logically ordered, and that they mechanically deduced right answers in cases. In the 1920's and 1930's, the story continues, the legal realists discredited this view by demonstrating that the law is marked by gaps and contradictions, arguing that judges construct legal justifications to support desired outcomes. This often- |
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repeated historical account is virtually taken for granted today, and continues to shape understandings about judging. In this groundbreaking book, esteemed legal theorist Brian Tamanaha thoroughly debunks the formalist-realist divide. Drawing from extensive research into the writings of judges and scholars, Tamanaha shows how, over the past century and a half, jurists have regularly expressed a balanced view of judging that acknowledges the limitations of law and of judges, yet recognizes that judges can and do render rule-bound decisions. He reveals how the story about the formalist age was an invention of politically motivated critics of the courts, and how it has led to significant misunderstandings about legal realism. Beyond the Formalist-Realist Divide traces how this false tale has distorted studies of judging by political scientists and debates among legal theorists. Recovering a balanced realism about judging, this book fundamentally rewrites legal history and offers a fresh perspective for theorists, judges, and practitioners of law. |
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UNINA9910461805103321 |
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Indigenous knowledge and the environment in Africa and North America [[electronic resource] /] / edited by David M. Gordon and Shepard Krech III |
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Athens, OH, : Ohio University Press, c2012 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (345 p.) |
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Ohio University Press Series in Ecology and History |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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GordonDavid M. <1970-> |
KrechShepard <1944-> |
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Indigenous peoples - Ecology - Africa |
Traditional ecological knowledge - Africa |
Indigenous peoples - Ecology - North America |
Traditional ecological knowledge - North America |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Acknowledgments; Introcution: Indigenous Knowledge and the Environment; Part I: Middle Ground; Chapter 1: Looking Like a White Man; Chapter 2: On Biomedicine, Transfers of Knowledge, and MalariaTreatments in Eastern North America and Tropical Africa; Chapter 3: Indigenous Ethnoornithology in the American South; Chapter 4: Nation-Building Knowledge; Part II: Conflict; Chapter 5: Locust Invasions and Tensions over Environmental and Bodily Health in the Colonial Transkei; Chapter 6: Navajos, New Dealers, and the Metaphysics of Nature; Chapter 7: Cherokee Medicine and the 1824 Smallpox Epidemic |
Part III: Environmental ReligionChapter 8: Spirit of the Salmon; Chapter 9: Indigenous Spirits; Chapter 10: Recruiting Nature; Part IV: Resource Rights; Chapter 11: Marine Tenure of the Makahs; Chapter 12: Reinventing "Traditional" Medicine in Postapartheid South Africa; Chapter 13: Dilemmas of "Indigenous Tenure" in South Africa; Selected Bibliography; Contributors; Index |
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Indigenous knowledge has become a catchphrase in global struggles for environmental justice. Yet indigenous knowledges are often viewed, incorrectly, as pure and primordial cultural artifacts. This collection draws from African and North American cases to argue that the forms of knowledge identified as "indigenous" resulted from strategies to control environmental resources during and after colonial encounters. At times indigenous knowledges represented a "middle ground" of intellectual exchanges between colonizers and colonized; elsewhere, indigenous knowledges were defined through conflic |
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