Cultural Expertise in Italian Courts: Contexts, Cases, and Issues
Cultural Expertise and Socio-Legal Studies
ISBN: 978-1-78769-516-0, eISBN: 978-1-78769-515-3
Publication date: 28 February 2019
Abstract
This chapter contributes to a corpus of legal–anthropological studies concerning the role of cultural experts in legal institutions. It begins by identifying the reasons behind the fragile collaboration between Italian courts and cultural experts and outlining some of the consequences of this relationship. It then presents a collection of cases involving cultural experts including a focus on the L’Aquila trial recounted from first-hand experience by Antonello Ciccozzi, the anthropologist who acted as expert consultant. The conclusions attempt to summarize the “state of the art” of cultural expertise in Italian courts today and call for greater collaboration between law and anthropology as a means of guaranteeing a fair trial.
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Citation
Ciccozzi, A. and Decarli, G. (2019), "Cultural Expertise in Italian Courts: Contexts, Cases, and Issues", Cultural Expertise and Socio-Legal Studies (Studies in Law, Politics, and Society, Vol. 78), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 35-54. https://doi.org/10.1108/S1059-433720190000078003
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
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