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Prelims

Special Issue: Cultural Expert Witnessing

ISBN: 978-1-78743-764-7, eISBN: 978-1-78743-763-0

ISSN: 1059-4337

Publication date: 29 January 2018

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(2018), "Prelims", Sarat, A. and Rodriguez, L. (Ed.) Special Issue: Cultural Expert Witnessing (Studies in Law, Politics, and Society, Vol. 74), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. i-xi. https://doi.org/10.1108/S1059-433720180000074001

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Special Issue: Cultural Expert Witnessing

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Studies inn Law, Politics, and Society

Series Editors: Austin Sarat

Recent Volumes:

Volumes 1–2 Edited by Rita J. Simon
Volume 3: Edited by Steven Spitzer
Volumes 4–9: Edited by Steven Spitzer and Andrew S. Scull
Volumes 10–16: Edited by Susan S. Sibey and Austin Sarat
Volumes 17–33: Edited by Austin Sarat and Patricia Ewick
Volumes 34–74: Edited by Austin Sarat

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Studies in Law, Politics, and Society Volume 74

Special Issue: Cultural Expert Witnessing

Edited By

Austin Sarat

Department of Law, Jurisprudence & Social Thought and Political Science, Amherst College, USA

Special Issue Editor

Leila Rodriguez

Department of Anthropology, University of Cincinnati, USA

United Kingdom – North America – Japan India – Malaysia – China

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ISSN: 1059-4337 (Series)

Dedication

In this latest edition of this highly successful research series, chapters explore expert witnessing in legal cases that invoke culture. Topics include: judicial ethnocentrism, political asylum, race identity and cultural defense.

Contents

Editorial Board ix
List of Contributors xi
Introduction: Cultural Expert Testimony in American Legal Proceedings 1
Leila Rodriguez
Expert Witnesing in Honduran Asylum Cases: What Diference Can Twenty Years Make? 11
James Phillips
Judicial Ethnocentrism Versus Expert Witneses in Asylum Cases 49
Murray J. Leaf
Guilt, Innocence, Informant 101
Jeffrey H. Cohen and Lexine Trask
Traversing Boundaries: Anthropology, Political Asylum and the Provision of Expert Witnes 115
Kathleen M. Gallagher
Proving “Race” Identity of Chinese Indonesian Asylum Seekers 133
ChorSwang Ngin
State Your Case: Best Practices for Presenting a Cultural Defense in Criminal Litigation 165
Heather Crabbe

Editorial Board

Gad Barzilai Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel
Paul Berman George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA
Roger Cotterrell Queen Mary College, University of London, London, UK
Jennifer Culbert Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
Eve Darian-Smith University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA
David Delaney Amherst College, Amherst, MA, USA
Florence Dore University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
David Engel State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, USA
Anthony Farley Albany Law School, Albany, NY, USA
David Garland New York University, New York, NY, USA
Jonathan Goldberg-Hiller University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI, USA
Laura Gomez University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Piyel Haldar Birkbeck College, University of London, London, UK
Thomas Hilbink Open Society Institute, New York, NY, USA
Desmond Manderson Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
Jennifer Mnookin University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Laura Beth Nielsen American Bar Foundation, Chicago, IL, USA
Paul Passavant Hobart and William Smith College, Geneva, NY, USA
Susan Schmeiser University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA
Jonathan Simon University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
Marianna Valverde University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
Alison Young University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia

List of Contributors

Jeffrey H. Cohen Department of Anthropology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
Heather Crabbe Indiana Wesleyan University, Boone County, KY, USA
Kathleen M. Gallagher Graduate Program in International Relations, St Mary’s University, San Antonio, TX, USA; University of Texas South Asia Institute, Austin, TX, USA; Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
Murray J. Leaf Economic, Political, and Policy Sciences, University of Texas at Dallas, Dallas, TX, USA
ChorSwang Ngin Department of Anthropology, California State University, Los Angeles, CA, USA
James Phillips Southern Oregon University, Ashland, OR, USA
Leila Rodriguez Department of Anthropology, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, USA
Lexine Trask Department of Anthropology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA

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