{"product_id":"9781400887583","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 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.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47137747370224,"sku":"9781400887583","price":31.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781400887583_p0.jpg?v=1763713219","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781400887583","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}