Legal Practice and Cultural Diversity (Cultural Diversity and Law)

Legal Practice and Cultural Diversity considers how contemporary cultural and religious diversity challenges legal practice, how legal practice responds to that challenge, and how practice is changing in the encounter with the cultural diversity occasioned by large-scale, post-war immigration. Locating actual practices and interpretations which occur in jurisprudence and in public discussion, this volume examines how the wider environment shapes legal processes and is in turn shaped by them. In so doing, the work foregrounds a number of themes principally relating to changing norms and practices and sensitivity to cultural and religious difference in the application of the law. Comparative in approach, this study places particular cases in their widest context, taking into account international and transnational influences on the way in which actors, legal and other, respond.

Ralph Grillo is Emeritus Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Sussex, UK, Roger Ballard, University of Manchester, UK, Alessandro Ferrari, University of Insubria, Italy, André Hoekema, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Marcel Maussen, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands and Prakash Shah, Queen Mary University, London, UK.