Insiders, Outsiders, Injuries, and Law (eBook, PDF)

Revisiting 'The Oven Bird's Song'
Redaktion: Trautner, Mary Nell

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Produktbeschreibung

A central theme of law and society is that people's ideas about law and the decisions they make to mobilize law are shaped by community norms and cultural context. But this was not always an established concept. Among the first empirical pieces to articulate this theory was David Engel's 1984 article, 'The Oven Bird's Song: Insiders, Outsiders, and Personal Injuries in an American Community'. Over thirty years later, this article is now widely considered to be part of the law and society canon. This book argues that Engel's article succeeds so brilliantly because it integrates a wide variety of issues, such as cultural transformation, attitudes about law, dispute processing, legal consciousness, rights mobilization, inclusion and exclusion, and inequality. Contributors to this volume explore the influence of Engel's important work, engaging with the possibilities in its challenging hypotheses and provocative omissions related to the legal system and legal process, class conflict and difference, and law in other cultures.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Januar 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781316992982
• Artikelnr.: 50463225

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Introduction and Contextualization: 1. Revisiting the oven bird's
song Mary Nell Trautner; 2. The oven bird's song: insiders, outsiders, and
personal injuries in an American community David M. Engel; 3. Emulating
Sherlock Holmes: the dog that didn't bark, the victim who didn't sue, and
other contradictions of the 'hyper-litigious' society Barbara Yngvesson; 4.
Karl's law school, or the oven bird in Buffalo Alfred S. Konefsky; Part II.
The Oven Bird's Insights into the Legal System and Legal Process: 5.
Challenging legal consciousness: practice, institutions, and varieties of
resistance Anna-Maria Marshall; 6. Client selection: how lawyers reflect
and influence community values Lynn Mather; 7. Do jurors hear the oven
bird's song? Valerie P. Hans; 8. Having a right but using it too: 'The Oven
Bird's Song' about contracts Stewart Macaulay; Part III. Insiders,
Outsiders, Class Conflict, and Difference: 9. Indigenous litigiousness: the
oven bird's song and the miner's canary Eve Darian-Smith; 10. Listening for
the songs of others: insiders, outsiders, and the legal marginalization of
the working underclass in America Michael McCann; 11. Racing the oven bird:
criminalization, rightlessness, and the politics of immigration Jamie
Longazel; 12. Irresponsible matter: sublunar dreams of injury and identity
Anne Bloom; 13. Student perceptions of (their) place in relationship to
'The Oven Bird's Song' Renee Ann Cramer; Part IV. Conflict and Law in Other
Cultures: 14. The songs of other birds Anya Bernstein; 15. Imagined
community and litigation behavior: the meaning of automobile compensation
lawsuits in Japan Yoshitaka Wada; 16. Can 'The Oven Bird' migrate north of
the border? Annie Bunting; Part V. Afterward: 17. Looking backward, looking
forward: past and future lives of 'The Oven Bird's Song' David M. Engel.