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THE CONFERENCE ON CRITICAL LEGAL STUDIES (CLS) CAME INTO EXISTENCE IN MADISON, WISCONSIN, IN 1977 DURING A MEETING OF LEGAL SCHOLARS AND PRACTITIONERS DISSATISFIED WITH MAINSTREAM LAW. SINCE THEN THE MEMBERS HAVE BECOME ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT AND CONTROVERSIAL GROUPS WITHIN THE LEGAL ACADEMY. IN THIS ESSAY, THE AUTHOR FOCUSES ON SOME OF THE MOST INTELLECTUALLY AND POLITICALLY CHALLENGING POSITIONS ASSOCIATED WITH CLS.

Exploring the legal; David Cowan and Daniel Wincott -- PART I: METHODOLOGICAL ISSUES -- 1. Debt, Death, and Redemption: Toward a Soterial-Legal History of the Turner Rebellion; Christopher Tomlins -- 2. The Concept of Law in Global Societal Constitutionalism; Ji?í P?ibá? -- 3. Portraying the Legal in Socio-Legal Studies through Legal-Naming Events; Natalie Ohana -- 4. Sex/Gender Equality: Taking a Break from the Legal to Transform the Social; Sharon Cowan -- PART II: CASE STUDIES -- 5. Fluid Legal Labels and the Circulation of Socio-technical Objects: the Multiple Lives of 'Fake' Medicines; Emilie Cloatre -- 6. Solar Panels, Home Owners and Leases: the Lease as a Socio-legal Object; Caroline Hunter -- 7. Bringing the Technical into the Socio-legal: The Metaphors of Law and Legal Scholarship of a 21st Century European Union; Paul James Cardwell and Tamara Hervey -- 8. Territory and Human Rights: Mandatory Possession Proceedings; David Cowan -- 9. Legal Technology in an Age of Austerity: Documentation, 'Functional' Incontinence and the Problem of Dignity; Helen Carr -- 10. Following the Law or Using the Law? Decision Making in Medical Manslaughter; Andrew Sanders and Danielle Griffiths -- A Sociolegal Metatheory; Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos -- Afterword; Annelise Riles

Der vorliegende Band, in seiner Mischung konsequent zur Vielfalt der ELPIS-Netzwerkmitglieder, folgt der Tradition seiner Vorgänger hinsichtlich der Auseinandersetzung mit verschiedenen Fragen des europäischen Rechts (inkl. spezifischerer Fragen der europäischen Rechtsausbildung) wobei Fragen des Wirtschaftsrechts der Europäischen Union, konkreter im Kontext der Themen des Insolvenzrechts, autonomen Fahrens, der Schiffsabwrackung und bestimmter Wirkungen des europäischen Strafrechts behandelt werden. Ferner befasst er sich mit Fragen der Menschenrechte vermöge unterschiedlicher Ansichten in Bezug auf die Gesellschaft, die insbes. von Realismus geprägt sind; letzterer ist auch in "rechtsbezogenen" Werken eines Zeitgenossen von Stahl, Johann Strauss Vater (1804-1849) und seiner Nachkommen zu finden (und zu hören). Mit Beiträgen von Prof. Dr. Caroula Argyriadis-Kervegan, Prof. Dr. Christian Becker, Robert Brockhaus, Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c.mult. Hilmar Fenge, Prof. Dr. Claas Friedrich Germelmann, Ludmilla Graz, Lena Gumnior, Prof. Dr. Bernd Oppermann, Dr. Dimitrios Parashu, Prof. Dr. Vasco Pereira da Silva und Prof. Dr. Armelle Renaut Couteau.

What is law? Legal norms, structures, and practices -- Studying tribal law and contemporary tribal legal documents -- Tribal law in customs and traditions -- Forms and trends of traditional tribal governments -- The history of federal Indian policy and the changes to tribal governments -- Introduction and history of tribal courts -- Tribal justice systems today: general overview and comparison -- Examples of tribal court systems -- An introduction to balancing tribal legal heritage and Anglo-American law -- Introduction to tribal court authority: differences between criminal and civil law -- Criminal and civil violations in tribal legal traditions -- Tribal criminal jurisdiction -- Tribal civil jurisdiction -- Tribal kinship and the law -- Boarding schools and the removal of tribal children -- The Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978 -- Tribal court custody proceedings -- Introducing Indian civil rights -- The Indian Civil Rights Act of 1968 -- Affirming tribal authority: Santa Clara Pueblo v. Martinez -- Contemporary civil rights issues -- Sources of law -- Common law in contemporary legal systems -- Traditional dispute resolution -- Introduction to peacemaking -- Models of peacemaking -- Separation of powers -- Ethics for tribal judges -- Ethics for tribal court personnel -- Ethics for tribal court advocates