Cultural expertise and litigation
Subtitle: patterns, conflicts, narratives
By: edited by Livia Holden
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY
Language: eng
Subjects: Forensic anthropology; Expert Evidence; Forensic sociology; Right of Asylum
Table of contents: title: South Asian Muslims and country expertise in the American immigration courts  /  Sylvia Vatuk; title: When South Asians marry trans-jurisdictionally: some reflections on immigration cases by an expert?  /  Prakash Shah; title: French law courts and South Asians litigants  /  Vronique Bouillier; title: Being on and being in: exposure and influence of academic experts in contemporary Denmark  /  Stig Toft Madsen; title: Witness statements and credibility assessments in the British asylum courts  /  Anthony Good; title: Honour killing? or just plain homicide?  / Roger Ballard; title: Life and law: advocacy and expert witnessing in the UK  /  Werner Menski; title: The case of S.: elaborating the right? narrative to fit normative/political expectation in asylum procedure in Italy  /  Tommaso Sbriccoli and Stefano Jacoviello; title: Expert report writing: professional commitments and legal outcomes / Livia Holden.