Description
Book SynopsisStudies in Law, Politics, and Society provides a vehicle for the publication of scholarly articles within the broad parameters of interdisciplinary legal scholarship. In this latest edition of this highly successful research series, chapters examine a diverse range of legal issues and their impact on and intersections with society. This volume is a collection of chapters exploring expert witnessing in Asylum Cases. Topics covered include: judicial ethnocentrism, political asylum, race identity and cultural defense. This volume brings together leading scholars and will be vital reading for all those researching in this subject area.
Trade ReviewAnthropologists explore the use of cultural expert testimony as evidence in legal conflicts that invoke cultural difference. They address knowing the role of expert testimony in a cultural defense, reconciling the job of expert witness with other professional roles, relating to defendants versus informants, employing legal concepts that have little anthropological acceptance, producing testimony in changing historical and political contexts, and helping judges understand culture. -- Annotation ©2018 * (protoview.com) *
Table of ContentsIntroduction;
Leila Rodriguez 1. Expert Witnessing in Honduran Asylum Cases: What Difference Can Twenty Years Make?;
James Phillips 2. Judicial Ethnocentrism vs Expert Witnesses in Asylum Cases;
Murray J. Leaf 3. Guilt, Innocence, Informant;
Jeffrey Cohen and Lexine Trask 4. Traversing Boundaries: Anthropology, Political Asylum and The Provision of Expert Witness;
Kathleen Gallagher 5. Proving "Race" Identity of Chinese Indonesian Asylum Seekers;
ChorSwang Ngin 6. State Your Case: Best Practices for Presenting a Cultural Defense in Criminal Litigation;
Heather Crabbe, Esq.
