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Adversarial Case-Making: An Ethnography of English Crown Court Procedure: 116
Author(s): Thomas Scheffer (Author)
- Publisher: BRILL
- Publication Date: 24 Sept. 2010
- Language: English
- Print length: 328 pages
- ISBN-10: 900418726X
- ISBN-13: 9789004187269
Book Description
This book explores the working of law and lawyers down to their very details and minituae.
Editorial Reviews
Review
“The book will prove eye-opening for those considering entering the legal profession, either as solicitor or barrister. […] Adversarial Case-Making‘s ethnographic and micro-sociological methods provide insights that cannot be achieved other than through years of fieldwork and the filing, coding and categorizing of mountains of ethnographic data, such as files, documents, meeting notes, transcripts and archive material.” – Lisa Vanhala, British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow and Lecturer in Human Rights, in: Law & Politics Book Review, 2011, pp. 693-695
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.
