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Special Issue: Cultural Expert Witnessing
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Studies inn Law, Politics, and Society
Series Editors: Austin Sarat
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Studies in Law, Politics, and Society Volume 74
Special Issue: Cultural Expert Witnessing
Edited By
Austin Sarat
Department of Law, Jurisprudence & Social Thought and Political Science, Amherst College, USA
Special Issue Editor
Leila Rodriguez
Department of Anthropology, University of Cincinnati, USA
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ISSN: 1059-4337 (Series)
Dedication
In this latest edition of this highly successful research series, chapters explore expert witnessing in legal cases that invoke culture. Topics include: judicial ethnocentrism, political asylum, race identity and cultural defense.
Contents
| Editorial Board | ix |
| List of Contributors | xi |
| Introduction: Cultural Expert Testimony in American Legal Proceedings | 1 |
| Leila Rodriguez | |
| Expert Witnesing in Honduran Asylum Cases: What Diference Can Twenty Years Make? | 11 |
| James Phillips | |
| Judicial Ethnocentrism Versus Expert Witneses in Asylum Cases | 49 |
| Murray J. Leaf | |
| Guilt, Innocence, Informant | 101 |
| Jeffrey H. Cohen and Lexine Trask | |
| Traversing Boundaries: Anthropology, Political Asylum and the Provision of Expert Witnes | 115 |
| Kathleen M. Gallagher | |
| Proving “Race” Identity of Chinese Indonesian Asylum Seekers | 133 |
| ChorSwang Ngin | |
| State Your Case: Best Practices for Presenting a Cultural Defense in Criminal Litigation | 165 |
| Heather Crabbe |
Editorial Board
| Gad Barzilai | Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel |
| Paul Berman | George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA |
| Roger Cotterrell | Queen Mary College, University of London, London, UK |
| Jennifer Culbert | Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA |
| Eve Darian-Smith | University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA |
| David Delaney | Amherst College, Amherst, MA, USA |
| Florence Dore | University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA |
| David Engel | State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, USA |
| Anthony Farley | Albany Law School, Albany, NY, USA |
| David Garland | New York University, New York, NY, USA |
| Jonathan Goldberg-Hiller | University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI, USA |
| Laura Gomez | University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA |
| Piyel Haldar | Birkbeck College, University of London, London, UK |
| Thomas Hilbink | Open Society Institute, New York, NY, USA |
| Desmond Manderson | Australian National University, Canberra, Australia |
| Jennifer Mnookin | University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA |
| Laura Beth Nielsen | American Bar Foundation, Chicago, IL, USA |
| Paul Passavant | Hobart and William Smith College, Geneva, NY, USA |
| Susan Schmeiser | University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA |
| Jonathan Simon | University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA |
| Marianna Valverde | University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada |
| Alison Young | University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia |
List of Contributors
| Jeffrey H. Cohen | Department of Anthropology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA |
| Heather Crabbe | Indiana Wesleyan University, Boone County, KY, USA |
| Kathleen M. Gallagher | Graduate Program in International Relations, St Mary’s University, San Antonio, TX, USA; University of Texas South Asia Institute, Austin, TX, USA; Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA |
| Murray J. Leaf | Economic, Political, and Policy Sciences, University of Texas at Dallas, Dallas, TX, USA |
| ChorSwang Ngin | Department of Anthropology, California State University, Los Angeles, CA, USA |
| James Phillips | Southern Oregon University, Ashland, OR, USA |
| Leila Rodriguez | Department of Anthropology, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, USA |
| Lexine Trask | Department of Anthropology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA |
