{"product_id":"law-as-culture-lawrence-rosen-9780691136448","title":"Law as Culture: An Invitation","description":"\u003cp\u003eLaw is integral to culture, and culture to law. Often considered a distinctive domain with strange rules and stranger language, law is actually part of a culture's way of expressing its sense of the order of things. In \u003ci\u003eLaw as Culture\u003c\/i\u003e, Lawrence Rosen invites readers to consider how the facts that are adduced in a legal forum connect to the ways in which facts are constructed in other areas of everyday life, how the processes of legal decision-making partake of the logic by which the culture as a whole is put together, and how courts, mediators, or social pressures fashion a sense of the world as consistent with common sense and social identity. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e While the book explores issues comparatively, in each instance it relates them to contemporary Western experience. The development of the jury and Continental legal proceedings thus becomes a story of the development of Western ideas of the person and time; African mediation techniques become tests for the style and success of similar efforts in America and Europe; the assertion that one's culture should be considered as an excuse for a crime becomes a challenge to the relation of cultural norms and cultural diversity. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Throughout the book, the reader is invited to approach law afresh, as a realm that is integral to every culture and as a window into the nature of culture itself.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Lawrence Rosen\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0691136440\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780691136448\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Princeton University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/23\/2008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 232\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.52lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.03h x 4.98w x 0.56d","brand":"Lawrence Rosen","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44120041652479,"sku":"9780691136448","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_52b04dcd-aaa5-42c2-8fa7-7b3a0d1de325.jpg?v=1687412253","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/law-as-culture-lawrence-rosen-9780691136448","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}