Legal practice and cultural diversity
By: by Ralph Grillo ... [et al.].
Contributors: Grillo, R. D.
Publisher: Ashgate Pub.; Routledge
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9780754675471
Subjects: Religious minorities -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Congresses; Legal polycentricity -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses.
Description: xiv, 345 p
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Legal practice and cultural diversity : introduction / Roger Ballard ... [et al.]; title: Cultural diversity : challenge and accommodation / Roger Ballard ... [et al.]; title: Indian pluralism and its relevance for Europe / Werner Menski; title: Legal pluralism and differentiated morality : sharia in Ontario? / Veit Bader; title: Transforming to accommodate? : reflections on the sharia debate in Britain / Prakash Shah; title: Sharia in a European context / Mathias Rohe; title: Objection, your honour! accommodating niqab-wearing women in courtrooms / Natasha Bakht; title: The challenge of African customary laws to English legal culture / Gordon Woodman; title: Religious challenges to the secularized identity of an insecure polity : a tentative sociology of Québec's "reasonable accommodation" debate / Jean-François Gaudreault-DesBiens; title: Does the Dutch judiciary pluralize domestic law? / André Hoekema; title: The influence of culture on the determination of damages : how cultural relativism affects the analysis of trauma / Alison Renteln; title: Jews and Muslims in France : changing responses to cultural and religious diversity claims / Martine Cohen; title: L'affaire du foulard in the shadow of the Strasbourg Court : Article nine and the public career of the veil in France / Claire de Galembert; title: The changing position of religious minorities in English law : the legacy of Begum / Russell Sandberg; title: Approaches to diversity in the domestic courts : Article 9 of the European Convention on Human Rights / Samantha Knights; title: Human rights in contexts of ethnic plurality : always a vehicle for liberation? / Roger Ballard.