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課程名稱 |
法律人類學
Legal Anthropology |
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開課學期 |
106-2 |
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授課對象 |
法律學院 法律研究所 |
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授課教師 |
費雪若 |
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課號 |
LAW7511 |
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課程識別碼 |
A21EM4420 |
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學分 |
1.0 |
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全/半年 |
半年 |
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必/選修 |
選修 |
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上課時間 |
第7,8 週
星期一A,B(18:25~20:10)星期二A,B(18:25~20:10)星期三A,B(18:25~20:10)星期四A,B(18:25~20:10) |
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上課地點 |
法研7法研7法研7法研7 |
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備註 |
本課程以英語授課。密集課程。
限法律學院學生(含輔系、雙修生)
總人數上限：20人 |
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Ceiba 課程網頁 |
http://ceiba.ntu.edu.tw/1062LAW7511 |
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課程概述 |
“The law is one big anthropological document.”
--Oliver Wendell Holmes, 1920
Associate Justice, United States Supreme Court
This course is a graduate-level introduction to legal anthropology. At the intersection of legal studies and anthropology, this sub-discipline examines the role of law in, of, and through culture and society. Key questions include: How are legal systems shaped by culture? How are cultures shaped by legal systems? Are all legal-cultural systems equal? We will read widely from both classic and contemporary texts in the fields of legal and political anthropology, examining the logics of legal systems and how people use, abuse, subvert and leverage them. Focusing broadly on how law matters in everyday lives, we will address law’s changing relationship to discipline, power, justice, and governmentality. Topics to be covered include rules and norms, legal pluralism and consciousness, bureaucracy and governance, human rights, and struggles for justice. |
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課程目標 |
Monday, April 9: Class Introduction – What is anthropology? What is legal anthropology?
Reading: Sally Falk Moore, 2001. “Certainties undone: fifty turbulent years of legal anthropology, 1949-1999.” Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 7:95-116
Tuesday, April 10: Rules, Norms, and Customs
The colonial encounter and creation of customary law; differences between rules and norms; legal anthropology and analogy
Readings:
Melissa Demian, 2003 “Custom in the courtroom, law in the village: legal transformations in Papua New Guinea.” Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (N.S.) 9: 97-115
Recommended:
Carol J. Greenhouse, 1982 “Looking at culture, looking for rules.” Man (N.S.) 17:58-73.
Wednesday, April 11: Legal Consciousness and Legal Pluralism
Legal domains; legal consciousness among specialists and non-specialists; differences between legal rules and social norms
Readings:
Richard A. Wilson, 2000. “Reconciliation and revenge in post-apartheid South Africa: Rethinking legal pluralism and human rights.” Current Anthropology 41: 75-98
Recommended:
Sara Friedman, 2012. “Adjudicating the Intersection of Marital Immigration, Domestic Violence, and Spousal Murder: China-Taiwan Marriages and Competing Legal Domains.” Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies 19:1, 221-255.
Thursday, April 12: Thinking Like a Lawyer
Legal education; “seeing like a court”
Reading:
Elizabeth Mertz, 2007. The Language of Law School: Learning to “Think Like A Lawyer”. Oxford University Press. Ch. 6: pp. 97-137.
Monday, April 16: Law on the Margins of the State
Is it possible to be ‘outside’ of the law? How does law create mobility and immobility? How do we understand margins and centers, and their effects?
Readings:
T. Kelly 2004 Returning home? Law, violence, and displacement among West Bank Palestinians. PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review 27: 95-112
Recommended:
S. Palmié. 1996. “Which centre, whose margin? Notes towards an archaeology of US Supreme Court Case 91-948, 1993 (Church of the Lukumí vs. City of Hialeah, South Florida).” In Inside and Outside the Law: Anthropological Studies of Authority and Ambiguity, O. Harris (ed)
Tuesday, April 17: Studying ‘Up’: Bureaucracies, Legislatures, Elites
Studying law outside the courts; “scaling up” legal anthropology; ethnographic challenges of studying elites
Readings:
Anya Bernstein, 2008. “The Social Life of Regulation in Taipei City Hall: The Role of Legality in the Administrative Bureaucracy.” Law & Social Inquiry 33(4): 925-954.
Recommended:
Phyllis Pease Chock. 1991. “’Illegal Aliens’ and ‘Opportunity’: Myth-Making in Congressional Testimony.” American Ethnologist 18(2): 279-294.
Wednesday, April 18: Rights, Justice, Activism
Anthropology with, in, and of political intervention and advocacy; relationship between law and social change
Readings:
Naisargi N. Dave, “Ordering Justice, Fixing Dreams: An Ethnography of Queer Legal Activism,” in Law Like Love: Queer Perspectives on Law in India, edited by Arvind Narrain and Alok Gupta (New Delhi: Yoda Press, 2011)
Recommended:
Jane K. Cowan, 2006. “Culture and rights after Culture and Rights.” American Anthropologist 108: 9-24
Prabha Kotiswaran, 2008. “Born Unto Brothels: Toward a Legal Ethnography of Sex Work in an Indian Red-Light Area.” Law and Social Inquiry 33(3): 579-629
Thursday, April 19
Final exam and final course discussion |
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課程要求 |
Course Requirements
1.Attendance and Participation: This seminar course will be conducted on the basis of shared reading and active discussion. You are expected to have read the assigned material before each class and to actively participate in class discussion. Participation will account for 40% of your course grade.
2.Court ethnography（修課同學必須在修課期間進行一次法庭觀察的田野習作，修課學生須具備華文聽、讀能力）: During the first week of the course, you are required to observe one court session at a court of your choice. You should write a 2-3 page summary of your observation, employing one concept discussed in our first week. Guidelines will be handed out on the first day. Due in class on Monday April 16th. 30% of course grade.
***Listening and reading ability in Chinese is required.
3.Final exam: In-class essay exam, Thursday April 19th. 30% of course grade.
本課程的加選方式為２(領取授權碼的方式)，並且僅開放五個名額給「研究生」加選。若有研究生想要加選，請在二階確定沒有選上課後到2/14晚上12點前，繳交一份一頁左右的檔案並以電子檔的方式寄信至r03a21010@ntu.edu.tw，內容為妳/你的研究與這門課程的關係，以華/英文書寫皆可，Sara老師將在閱讀後挑選五位同學進行加選！
關於旁聽的事宜，將在開學後確認教室大小後才會另行決定。
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週次 |
日期 |
單元主題 |
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第1週 |
4/9 |
Class Introduction – What is anthropology? What is legal anthropology? |
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第2週 |
4/10 |
Rules, Norms, and Customs |
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第3週 |
4/11 |
Legal Consciousness and Legal Pluralism |
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第4週 |
4/12 |
Thinking Like a Lawyer |
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第5週 |
4/16 |
Law on the Margins of the State |
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第6週 |
4/17 |
Studying ‘Up’: Bureaucracies, Legislatures, Elites |
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第7週 |
4/18 |
Rights, Justice, Activism |
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第8週 |
4/19 |
Final exam and final course discussion |
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