Rules versus Relationships: The Ethnography of Legal Discourse (Chicago Series in Law and Society) - Hardcover

Conley, John M.; O'Barr, William M.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0226114902 ISBN 13: 9780226114903

Publisher: University of Chicago Press, 1990

Synopsis

In Rules versus Relationships, John M. Conley and William M. O'Barr examine the experiences of litigants seeking redress of everyday difficulties through the small claims courts of the American legal system. The authors find two major and contrasting ways in which litigants formulate and express their problems in terms of specific rule violations and seek concrete legal remedies that would mend soured relationships and respond to their personal and social needs.

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In Rules versus Relationships, John M. Conley and William M. O'Barr examine the experiences of litigants seeking redress of everyday difficulties through the small claim courts of the American legal system. The Authors find two major and contrasting ways in which litigants formulate and express their problems to the court.

About the Author

John M. Conley is professor of law at the University of North Carolina. William M. O'Barr is professor of cultural anthropology and sociology at Duke University and is author of Linguistic Evidence. They are codirectors of the Duke University/University of North Carolina Law and Language Project.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0226114902
• ISBN 13: 9780226114903
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 236