Special issue : Cultural expert witnessing /

In this latest edition of this highly successful research series, chapters explore expert witnessing in asylum cases. Topics include: judicial ethnocentrism, political asylum, race identity and cultural defense.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Sarat, Austin (Editor), Rodriguez, Leila (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Bingle, UK : Emerald Publishing, [2018]
Edition:First edition.
Series:Studies in law, politics, and society ; v. 74.
Subjects:
Evidence, Expert > Social aspects.
Sociological jurisprudence.
Expertises > Aspect social.
Sociologie juridique.
International human rights law.
LAW > Civil Procedure.
LAW > Legal Services.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Government > Judicial Branch.
Sociological jurisprudence
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction; Leila Rodriguez 1, Expert Witnessing in Honduran Asylum Cases: What Difference Can Twenty Years Make?; James Phillips 2, Judicial Ethnocentrism vs Expert Witnesses in Asylum Cases; Murray J. Leaf 3, Guilt, Innocence, Informant; Jeffrey Cohen and Lexine Trask 4, Traversing Boundaries: Anthropology, Political Asylum and The Provision of Expert Witness; Kathleen Gallagher 5, Proving 'Race' Identity of Chinese Indonesian Asylum Seekers; ChorSwang Ngin 6, State Your Case: Best Practices for Presenting a Cultural Defense in Criminal Litigation; Heather Crabbe, Esq.

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