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050 00 $aK487.A57$bN33 2002
082 00 $a340/.115$221
100 1 $aNader, Laura.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80089242
245 14 $aThe life of the law :$banthropological projects /$cLaura Nader.
260 $aBerkeley :$bUniversity of California Press,$c[2002], ©2002.
300 $axiii, 262 pages ;$c22 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 231-250) and index.
505 00 $g1.$tEvolving an Ethnography of Law: A Personal Document --$g2.$tLawyers and Anthropologists --$g3.$tHegemonic Processes in Law: Colonial to Contemporary --$g4.$tThe Plaintiff: A User Theory.
520 1 $a"Laura Nader, a distinguished and dynamic figure in the development of legal anthropology, examines the role of the law in the struggles for social and economic justice. In this book she gives a historical overview of the anthropology of law and explains the need for anthropologists, lawyers, and activists to recognize the centrality of law in processes of massive social change.
520 8 $aNader traces the evolution of the plaintiff's role in the United States in the second half of the twentieth century and convincingly argues that the atrophy of the plaintiff's power during this period undermines democracy.".
520 8 $a"Taking into account the vast changes wrought by globalization in both anthropology and law, Nader explores the increasing dominance of multinational corporations and the prominence of "free-market" ideology and practice today. In this context, she considers the rise of the Alternative Dispute Resolution movement which, since the 1960s, has been part of a major overhaul of the U.S. judicial system.
520 8 $aNader links increasing entrenchment of this movement to the erosion of the plaintiff's power and suggests that mandatory mediation and arbitration without appeal are structured to favor powerful - often corporate - interests. She advocates expanding the role of the plaintiff in tort law to counter corporate hegemony and, in the process, use the law to advance social justice."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aLaw and anthropology.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85075292
852 00 $bleh$hK487.A57$iN33 2002