Adversarial Case-Making: An Ethnography of English Crown Court Procedure: 116 (International Studies in Sociology and Social Anthropology, 116) - Hardcover

Thomas Scheffer

 
9789004187269: Adversarial Case-Making: An Ethnography of English Crown Court Procedure: 116 (International Studies in Sociology and Social Anthropology, 116)

Synopsis

This book explores the working of law and lawyers down to their very details and minituae.

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About the Author

Thomas Scheffer led the law-in-action Research Group. Currently he is Heisenberg scholar at the Institute for European Ethnology, Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany. He published on communication/ knowledge processes in migration control, social work, parliamentary inquiries, and legal casework. His research interests include micro-sociology, sociology of knowledge, political ethnography, and cultural comparison/translation. Scheffer is spokesperson of the section sociology of law in the German Sociological Association.

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