Alison Dundes Renteln
Biographic Data
| ID | 160527 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alison Dundes Renteln |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alison Dundes |
| FAMILY NAME | Renteln |
| SIGNATURE | RENTELN A D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Southern California |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 88 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Considering the Consequences of Poor Legal Translation
International Human Rights
This book provides an interdisciplinary overview of international human rights issues, offering truly international coverage including the Global South. Considering the philosophical foundations of human rights, Chen and Renteln explore the interpretive difficulties associated with identifying what constitute human rights abuses, and evaluate various perspectives on human rights. This book goes on to analyze institutions that strive to promote an…
Sensational Jurisprudence
Sensational jurisprudence is a new branch of sociolegal studies that deals with the five senses and public policy. Because the law privileges the visual, this essay examines social science research about images of suffering and the implications of these findings. The interdisciplinary scholarship about visual culture emphasizes the negative aspects of humanitarian appeals for funding to aid the distant sufferer, and it suggests that bombarding th…
Cultural Rights and Culture Defense
What Do We Have to Fear from the Cultural Defense?
This chapter addresses critics of the cultural defense who have argued that while it might help improve our backward-looking judgments of personal responsibility, it would have serious consequences for the future operation of the legal system. A number of different versions of this argument are identified and distinguished. In response to each, the chapter examines what evidence, if any, exists to support them, and concludes that fear of the cons…
Human Rights
The United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948. A burgeoning human rights movement followed, yielding many treaties and new international institutions and shaping the constitutions and laws of many states. Yet human rights continue to be contested politically and legally and there is substantial philosophical and theoretical debate over their foundations and implications. In this volume, distinguishe…
The Duty to Rescue
Cultural Law
Cultural law is a new and exciting field of study and practice. The core themes of linguistic and other cultural rights, cultural heritage, traditional crafts and knowledge, the performing arts, sports, and religion are of fundamental importance to people around the world, engaging them at the grass roots and often commanding their daily attention. The related legal processes are both significant and complex. This unique collection of materials a…
Constructing Civil Liberties
Constructing Civil Liberties: Discontinuities in the Development of American Constitutional Law. By Ken I. Kersch. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. 400p. $75.00 cloth, $29.99 paper. This is a fascinating book about constitutional development in the United States that questions traditional explanations for the genesis of constitutional rights. In this erudite study, Ken Kersch offers an account of the changing interpretations of consti…
The Use and Abuse of the Cultural Defense
Invoquer la défense culturelle est devenue une stratégie judiciaire populaire bien que controversée. Expliquant dans un premier temps que la portée de la défense culturelle est plus vaste que généralement comprise et qu'elle sert aussi bien à atténuer des sentences, à créer des exceptions à des politiques établies qu'à augmenter les montants de dommage et intérêts accordés, j'identifie ensuite les principes normatifs qui justifient ce type de déf…
The Cultural Defense
In a trial in California, Navajo defendants argue that using the hallucinogen peyote to achieve spiritual exaltation is protected by the Constitution’s free exercise of religion clause, trumping the states’ right to regulate them. An Ibo man from Nigeria sues Pan American World Airways for transporting his mother’s corpse in a cloth sack. Her arrival for the funeral facedown in a burlap bag signifies death by suicide according to the customs of h…
Visual Religious Symbols and the Law
Religious symbols evoke strong emotional responses, particularly those that are visual. This article considers a set of cases in which members of ethnic minority groups challenge policies denying them the right to wear symbols important for the maintenance of their social identities. Among the controversies considered are those concerning religious headgear and hair as well as the kirpan, the Sikh ceremonial dagger. The number of disputes involvi…
The Rights of the Dead
Research Article| October 01 2001 The Rights of the Dead: Autopsies and Corpse Mismanagement in Multicultural Societies Alison Dundes Renteln Alison Dundes Renteln Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (2001) 100 (4): 1005–1027. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-100-4-1005 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation Alison Dundes Renteln; The Rights …
Folk Law
Journal Article Folk Law: Essays In The Theory And Practice Of Lex Non Scripta. Edited by Alison Dundes Renteln & Alan Dundes Get access Folk Law: Essays In The Theory And Practice Of Lex Non Scripta. Edited by Alison Dundes Renteln & Alan Dundes. New York & London: Garland Publishing, 1994. Pp. 1037 in two vols. Walter Otto Weyrauch Walter Otto Weyrauch *Member, Board of Editors Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Sc…
Sex selection and reproductive freedom
The International Dimensions of Human Rights
International Human Rights
International Human Rights, Universalism versus Relativism, Frontiers of Anthropology
Journal Article Alison Dundes Renteln: International Human Rights, Universalism Versus Relativism, Frontiers of Anthropology Get access International Human Rights, Universalism Versus Relativism, Frontiers of Anthropology. By Alison DundesRenteln. Newbury Park: Sage Publications, 1990. Pp. 205. Wolfgang Fikentscher Wolfgang Fikentscher *Professor of Law, Munich. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American…
Human Rights and International Relations
Relativism and the Search for Human Rights
The theory of ethical relativism has been the subject of much misunderstanding. It is argued that the central insight of relativism is enculturation and not tolerance. Relativism is characterized as a metaethical theory about the nature of moral perceptions. As such it is logically consistent, permits moral criticism, and is compatible with cross-cultural universals. The existence of universals may indicate global support for particular human rig…
The Unanswered Challenge of Relativism and the Consequences for Human Rights
in recent years there has been a resurgence of interest in the concept of human rights. While some discuss what the appropriate length of the human rights list should be, others charge that the concept is a Western one. Fundamentally these debates reflect the underlying conflict between international human rights and cultural and ethical relativism. Since relativism forbids value judgments, the relativist cannot disapprove of specific cultural pr…
Relativism and the Search for Human Rights
The theory of ethical relativism has been the subject of much misunderstanding. It is argued that the central insight of relativism is enculturation and not tolerance. Relativism is characterized as a metaethical theory about the nature of moral perceptions. As such it is logically consistent, permits moral criticism, and is compatible with cross-cultural universals. The existence of universals may indicate global support for particular human rig…
The Unanswered Challenge of Relativism and the Consequences for Human Rights
in recent years there has been a resurgence of interest in the concept of human rights. While some discuss what the appropriate length of the human rights list should be, others charge that the concept is a Western one. Fundamentally these debates reflect the underlying conflict between international human rights and cultural and ethical relativism. Since relativism forbids value judgments, the relativist cannot disapprove of specific cultural pr…
Cultural Law
Cultural law is a new and exciting field of study and practice. The core themes of linguistic and other cultural rights, cultural heritage, traditional crafts and knowledge, the performing arts, sports, and religion are of fundamental importance to people around the world, engaging them at the grass roots and often commanding their daily attention. The related legal processes are both significant and complex. This unique collection of materials a…
The Use and Abuse of the Cultural Defense
Invoquer la défense culturelle est devenue une stratégie judiciaire populaire bien que controversée. Expliquant dans un premier temps que la portée de la défense culturelle est plus vaste que généralement comprise et qu'elle sert aussi bien à atténuer des sentences, à créer des exceptions à des politiques établies qu'à augmenter les montants de dommage et intérêts accordés, j'identifie ensuite les principes normatifs qui justifient ce type de déf…
Visual Religious Symbols and the Law
Religious symbols evoke strong emotional responses, particularly those that are visual. This article considers a set of cases in which members of ethnic minority groups challenge policies denying them the right to wear symbols important for the maintenance of their social identities. Among the controversies considered are those concerning religious headgear and hair as well as the kirpan, the Sikh ceremonial dagger. The number of disputes involvi…
Sex selection and reproductive freedom
The Rights of the Dead
Research Article| October 01 2001 The Rights of the Dead: Autopsies and Corpse Mismanagement in Multicultural Societies Alison Dundes Renteln Alison Dundes Renteln Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (2001) 100 (4): 1005–1027. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-100-4-1005 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation Alison Dundes Renteln; The Rights …
The Unanswered Challenge of Relativism and the Consequences for Human Rights
in recent years there has been a resurgence of interest in the concept of human rights. While some discuss what the appropriate length of the human rights list should be, others charge that the concept is a Western one. Fundamentally these debates reflect the underlying conflict between international human rights and cultural and ethical relativism. Since relativism forbids value judgments, the relativist cannot disapprove of specific cultural pr…
Human Rights and International Relations
Relativism and the Search for Human Rights
The theory of ethical relativism has been the subject of much misunderstanding. It is argued that the central insight of relativism is enculturation and not tolerance. Relativism is characterized as a metaethical theory about the nature of moral perceptions. As such it is logically consistent, permits moral criticism, and is compatible with cross-cultural universals. The existence of universals may indicate global support for particular human rig…
International Human Rights
International Human Rights, Universalism versus Relativism, Frontiers of Anthropology
Journal Article Alison Dundes Renteln: International Human Rights, Universalism Versus Relativism, Frontiers of Anthropology Get access International Human Rights, Universalism Versus Relativism, Frontiers of Anthropology. By Alison DundesRenteln. Newbury Park: Sage Publications, 1990. Pp. 205. Wolfgang Fikentscher Wolfgang Fikentscher *Professor of Law, Munich. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American…
Sex selection and reproductive freedom
The International Dimensions of Human Rights
Folk Law
Journal Article Folk Law: Essays In The Theory And Practice Of Lex Non Scripta. Edited by Alison Dundes Renteln & Alan Dundes Get access Folk Law: Essays In The Theory And Practice Of Lex Non Scripta. Edited by Alison Dundes Renteln & Alan Dundes. New York & London: Garland Publishing, 1994. Pp. 1037 in two vols. Walter Otto Weyrauch Walter Otto Weyrauch *Member, Board of Editors Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Sc…
The Rights of the Dead
Research Article| October 01 2001 The Rights of the Dead: Autopsies and Corpse Mismanagement in Multicultural Societies Alison Dundes Renteln Alison Dundes Renteln Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (2001) 100 (4): 1005–1027. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-100-4-1005 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation Alison Dundes Renteln; The Rights …
The Cultural Defense
In a trial in California, Navajo defendants argue that using the hallucinogen peyote to achieve spiritual exaltation is protected by the Constitution’s free exercise of religion clause, trumping the states’ right to regulate them. An Ibo man from Nigeria sues Pan American World Airways for transporting his mother’s corpse in a cloth sack. Her arrival for the funeral facedown in a burlap bag signifies death by suicide according to the customs of h…
Visual Religious Symbols and the Law
Religious symbols evoke strong emotional responses, particularly those that are visual. This article considers a set of cases in which members of ethnic minority groups challenge policies denying them the right to wear symbols important for the maintenance of their social identities. Among the controversies considered are those concerning religious headgear and hair as well as the kirpan, the Sikh ceremonial dagger. The number of disputes involvi…
The Use and Abuse of the Cultural Defense
Invoquer la défense culturelle est devenue une stratégie judiciaire populaire bien que controversée. Expliquant dans un premier temps que la portée de la défense culturelle est plus vaste que généralement comprise et qu'elle sert aussi bien à atténuer des sentences, à créer des exceptions à des politiques établies qu'à augmenter les montants de dommage et intérêts accordés, j'identifie ensuite les principes normatifs qui justifient ce type de déf…
Constructing Civil Liberties
Constructing Civil Liberties: Discontinuities in the Development of American Constitutional Law. By Ken I. Kersch. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. 400p. $75.00 cloth, $29.99 paper. This is a fascinating book about constitutional development in the United States that questions traditional explanations for the genesis of constitutional rights. In this erudite study, Ken Kersch offers an account of the changing interpretations of consti…
Cultural Law
Cultural law is a new and exciting field of study and practice. The core themes of linguistic and other cultural rights, cultural heritage, traditional crafts and knowledge, the performing arts, sports, and religion are of fundamental importance to people around the world, engaging them at the grass roots and often commanding their daily attention. The related legal processes are both significant and complex. This unique collection of materials a…
The Duty to Rescue
Human Rights
The United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948. A burgeoning human rights movement followed, yielding many treaties and new international institutions and shaping the constitutions and laws of many states. Yet human rights continue to be contested politically and legally and there is substantial philosophical and theoretical debate over their foundations and implications. In this volume, distinguishe…
What Do We Have to Fear from the Cultural Defense?
This chapter addresses critics of the cultural defense who have argued that while it might help improve our backward-looking judgments of personal responsibility, it would have serious consequences for the future operation of the legal system. A number of different versions of this argument are identified and distinguished. In response to each, the chapter examines what evidence, if any, exists to support them, and concludes that fear of the cons…
Sensational Jurisprudence
Sensational jurisprudence is a new branch of sociolegal studies that deals with the five senses and public policy. Because the law privileges the visual, this essay examines social science research about images of suffering and the implications of these findings. The interdisciplinary scholarship about visual culture emphasizes the negative aspects of humanitarian appeals for funding to aid the distant sufferer, and it suggests that bombarding th…
Cultural Rights and Culture Defense
International Human Rights
This book provides an interdisciplinary overview of international human rights issues, offering truly international coverage including the Global South. Considering the philosophical foundations of human rights, Chen and Renteln explore the interpretive difficulties associated with identifying what constitute human rights abuses, and evaluate various perspectives on human rights. This book goes on to analyze institutions that strive to promote an…
Considering the Consequences of Poor Legal Translation
Political science (18 works) · Law (17 works) · Sociology (14 works) · Human rights (10 works) · International Law and Human Rights (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Human Rights and Development (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Cultural relativism (4 works) · Environmental ethics (4 works)