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The Comparative Study of Legal Culture Winter 2003

Course Description:Legal practices vary both within and between societies, making it difficult to arrive at a universal definition of "law" even though the comparative endeavor presumes that such a definition is possible.This course examines ethnographic depictions of legal cultures, retracing scholars' shifting understandings of the nature of law while also exploring the complexity and diversity of legal phenomena.The first half of the course focuses on classic ethnographies.This section begins with a consideration of Llewellyn and Hoebel's classic legal realist text, The Cheyenne Way.This bo…