Limits of the Rule of Law: Negotiating Afghan "Traditional" Law in the International Civil Trials in the Czech Republic
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Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
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Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Limits of the Rule of Law: Negotiating Afghan "Traditional" Law in the International Civil Trials in the Czech Republic
Original language description
Drawing on ethnographic research of judicial cases in the Czech Republic which involve the law inmigrants' countries of origin, this Article outlines how multiple strategies handle encounters with thelegal-cultural differences of Afghanistan in order to neutralize what may be called the "alterity" oflaw. The Article suggests that far from being analytical tools, concepts such as "context," "culture,"and "customary" are strategically used by courts to neutralize unsettling aspects of foreign Afghanlegalities. Further, it applies Leopold Pospisil's ethnological concept of legal authority as a vehicle forreinterpreting the contextual differentiation of Afghan "traditional" law as an alternative to thestandard judicial approach. Lastly, this Article suggests that the legal-cultural differences in this andsimilar cases can be bridged by a new concept of legal sodality, which offers an anthropologization oflegal authorities' distinctive manner of imagining the law of the others.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>ost</sub> - Miscellaneous article in a specialist periodical
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50404 - Anthropology, ethnology
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GA18-23993S" target="_blank" >GA18-23993S: The Cultural Conditionality of the Modern Approach towards Legal Otherness: A Socioanthropological Perspective.</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2021
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law
ISSN
0090-2594
e-ISSN
2831-8633
Volume of the periodical
54
Issue of the periodical within the volume
5
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
39
Pages from-to
1123-1161
UT code for WoS article
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EID of the result in the Scopus database
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