Understanding Law in Micronesia: An Interpretive Approach to Transplanted Law (Studies in Human Society, 7) - Softcover

Tamanaha, Brian Z

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9004097686 ISBN 13: 9789004097681

Publisher: Brill Academic Pub, 1993

Synopsis

This book examines law in Micronesia from a novel perspective. It draws upon several branches of interpretive analysis, including mundane phenomenology, symbolic interaction, and cultural hermeneutics, to construct a comprehensive approach to transplanted systems of state law. Rather than the usual focus on legal norms and institutions, this approach directs attention to the law-related meaningful actions and understandings of legal actors and of non-legal actors.
Application of this approach results in insights about law in Micronesia, as well as about law itself, and about the ideology of law. A wide range of subjects are addressed, from the nature of legal thinking to the autonomy of law. It is a work in legal theory grounded in psychological, sociological and anthropological observations and analysis.

About this title

About the Author:

Brian Z. Tamanaha, S.J.D. (1992), Harvard Law School, is Lecturer at the University of Amsterdam. He has published articles on a range of subjects, including legal anthropology and legal theory.

Review:

'This is an important and useful book, as much, and possibly more so, for its ability to enhance an appreciation for the nature of the law transplanted in Micronesia as for its explication of the changes wrought...'
Jonathan Aleck, Pacific Affairs, 1994.
'L'intérêt du travail réside dans la description narrative des personnes et des faits remarquable.'
Jeanne Marie Léonard, Etudes Théologiques et Religieuses, 1994.

About this edition

• Publisher: Brill Academic Pub
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 9004097686
• ISBN 13: 9789004097681
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224