Livia Holden
Biographic Data
| ID | 240019 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Livia Holden |
| GIVEN NAMES | Livia |
| FAMILY NAME | Holden |
| SIGNATURE | HOLDEN L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Institut des sciences juridique et philosophique de la Sorbonne |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0371-1305 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Cultural expertise and legal pluralism in the United Kingdom, France, and Italy
International audience
Cultural expertise and legal pluralism: Introduction to the special section
The rise of cultural expertise in litigation
Cultural Expertise, Law, and Rights: A Comprehensive Guide
Cultural expertise in Europe: A focus on France
Expert cross-cultural knowledge is proving crucial to dispute resolution in increasingly diverse societies for protecting disadvantaged social groups and ensuring substantial access to justice. In this paper I survey the conceptualisation of cultural expertise in the socio-legal sciences, review the use of cultural expertise in a selected number of European countries where we have conducted our research and offer a preliminary overview of finding…
L'expertise culturelle en Europe: Focus sur la France
Les compétences interculturelles se révèlent cruciales pour le règlement des différends dans des sociétés de plus en plus diversifiées pour protéger les groupes sociaux défavorisés et garantir un accès substantiel à la justice. Dans cet article, j'étudie la conceptualisation de l'expertise culturelle dans les sciences sociojuridiques, passe en revue l'utilisation de l'expertise culturelle dans treize pays européens où nous avons mené nos recherch…
Anthropologists as Experts: Cultural Expertise, Colonialism, and Positionality
This article addresses the positionality of anthropologists and the impact of anthropological theories in cultural expertise with the help of three case studies that highlight the engagement of anthropologists with law and governance during colonialism and in the wake of it: a well-known case of witchcraft in Kenya, Volkekunde theories in Africa, and the Rwandan genocide. The article starts with a short genesis of the concept of cultural expertis…
Introduction: Why a History of Cultural Expertise
This is an introduction to a scholarly forum that is an outcome of the workshop entitled Cultural Expertise in Ancient and Modern History held in Oxford in July 2018 and aims to make explicit the interdisciplinary components of cultural expertise from a historiographical perspective in order to open up the discussion to the history of law
Law, governance, and culture in Gilgit-Baltistan: Introduction
This paper offers an introduction to law, governance and culture in Gilgit-Baltistan. The first section provides a historical survey of the most significant events that make of Gilgit-Baltistan a disputed territory with uncertain constitutional status in Pakistan. The second section delves into the case law that has sanctioned the constitutional status and the rights of the people of Gilgit-Baltistan in connection with the concepts of liminality …
Cultural Expertise and Law: An Historical Overview
The use of anthropology and sociology for dispute resolution, law-making, and governance has been frequent throughout the history of law and anthropology. Anthropological expertise in the form of expert witnessing or expert information, has been one among the significant activities of applied anthropology. However, no concept such the one of cultural expertise was formulated to theorise the engagement of anthropologists and sociologists with law.…
Daughters’ inheritance, legal pluralism, and governance in Pakistan
International audience
Plunder: When the Rule of Law is Illegal by Ugo Mattei and Laura Nader
Official Policies for (Un)Official Customs: The Hegemonic Treatment of Hindu Divorce Customs by Dominant Legal Discourses
This paper is a qualitative study based on long-term fieldwork in Madhya Pradesh. It explores and analyses Hindu customs of divorce and remarriage, focusing on actors’ agencies at the level both of customary jurisdictions and of official law courts in order to map the official policies of the dominant legal discourses in the multiple interpretative frames of their confirmation of, resistance to, fighting against and negotiation with customary mat…
Custom and Law Practices in Central India: Some Case Studies
This article features qualitative case law studies based on extensive fieldwork in rural Madhya Pradesh in India. It focuses on perceptions of law in the dispute-settlement process at the grassroots level, highlighting the features of legal consciousness especially in relation to forum-shopping strategies between traditional and official jurisdiction. It shows that at the local level customs are reinterpreted in the light of modern values. Yet th…
Anthropologists as Experts: Cultural Expertise, Colonialism, and Positionality
This article addresses the positionality of anthropologists and the impact of anthropological theories in cultural expertise with the help of three case studies that highlight the engagement of anthropologists with law and governance during colonialism and in the wake of it: a well-known case of witchcraft in Kenya, Volkekunde theories in Africa, and the Rwandan genocide. The article starts with a short genesis of the concept of cultural expertis…
Cultural Expertise and Law: An Historical Overview
The use of anthropology and sociology for dispute resolution, law-making, and governance has been frequent throughout the history of law and anthropology. Anthropological expertise in the form of expert witnessing or expert information, has been one among the significant activities of applied anthropology. However, no concept such the one of cultural expertise was formulated to theorise the engagement of anthropologists and sociologists with law.…
Introduction: Why a History of Cultural Expertise
This is an introduction to a scholarly forum that is an outcome of the workshop entitled Cultural Expertise in Ancient and Modern History held in Oxford in July 2018 and aims to make explicit the interdisciplinary components of cultural expertise from a historiographical perspective in order to open up the discussion to the history of law
Law, governance, and culture in Gilgit-Baltistan: Introduction
This paper offers an introduction to law, governance and culture in Gilgit-Baltistan. The first section provides a historical survey of the most significant events that make of Gilgit-Baltistan a disputed territory with uncertain constitutional status in Pakistan. The second section delves into the case law that has sanctioned the constitutional status and the rights of the people of Gilgit-Baltistan in connection with the concepts of liminality …
Custom and Law Practices in Central India: Some Case Studies
This article features qualitative case law studies based on extensive fieldwork in rural Madhya Pradesh in India. It focuses on perceptions of law in the dispute-settlement process at the grassroots level, highlighting the features of legal consciousness especially in relation to forum-shopping strategies between traditional and official jurisdiction. It shows that at the local level customs are reinterpreted in the light of modern values. Yet th…
Custom and Law Practices in Central India: Some Case Studies
This article features qualitative case law studies based on extensive fieldwork in rural Madhya Pradesh in India. It focuses on perceptions of law in the dispute-settlement process at the grassroots level, highlighting the features of legal consciousness especially in relation to forum-shopping strategies between traditional and official jurisdiction. It shows that at the local level customs are reinterpreted in the light of modern values. Yet th…
Official Policies for (Un)Official Customs: The Hegemonic Treatment of Hindu Divorce Customs by Dominant Legal Discourses
This paper is a qualitative study based on long-term fieldwork in Madhya Pradesh. It explores and analyses Hindu customs of divorce and remarriage, focusing on actors’ agencies at the level both of customary jurisdictions and of official law courts in order to map the official policies of the dominant legal discourses in the multiple interpretative frames of their confirmation of, resistance to, fighting against and negotiation with customary mat…
Plunder: When the Rule of Law is Illegal by Ugo Mattei and Laura Nader
Daughters’ inheritance, legal pluralism, and governance in Pakistan
International audience
Law, governance, and culture in Gilgit-Baltistan: Introduction
This paper offers an introduction to law, governance and culture in Gilgit-Baltistan. The first section provides a historical survey of the most significant events that make of Gilgit-Baltistan a disputed territory with uncertain constitutional status in Pakistan. The second section delves into the case law that has sanctioned the constitutional status and the rights of the people of Gilgit-Baltistan in connection with the concepts of liminality …
Cultural Expertise and Law: An Historical Overview
The use of anthropology and sociology for dispute resolution, law-making, and governance has been frequent throughout the history of law and anthropology. Anthropological expertise in the form of expert witnessing or expert information, has been one among the significant activities of applied anthropology. However, no concept such the one of cultural expertise was formulated to theorise the engagement of anthropologists and sociologists with law.…
Introduction: Why a History of Cultural Expertise
This is an introduction to a scholarly forum that is an outcome of the workshop entitled Cultural Expertise in Ancient and Modern History held in Oxford in July 2018 and aims to make explicit the interdisciplinary components of cultural expertise from a historiographical perspective in order to open up the discussion to the history of law
Cultural expertise in Europe: A focus on France
Expert cross-cultural knowledge is proving crucial to dispute resolution in increasingly diverse societies for protecting disadvantaged social groups and ensuring substantial access to justice. In this paper I survey the conceptualisation of cultural expertise in the socio-legal sciences, review the use of cultural expertise in a selected number of European countries where we have conducted our research and offer a preliminary overview of finding…
L'expertise culturelle en Europe: Focus sur la France
Les compétences interculturelles se révèlent cruciales pour le règlement des différends dans des sociétés de plus en plus diversifiées pour protéger les groupes sociaux défavorisés et garantir un accès substantiel à la justice. Dans cet article, j'étudie la conceptualisation de l'expertise culturelle dans les sciences sociojuridiques, passe en revue l'utilisation de l'expertise culturelle dans treize pays européens où nous avons mené nos recherch…
Anthropologists as Experts: Cultural Expertise, Colonialism, and Positionality
This article addresses the positionality of anthropologists and the impact of anthropological theories in cultural expertise with the help of three case studies that highlight the engagement of anthropologists with law and governance during colonialism and in the wake of it: a well-known case of witchcraft in Kenya, Volkekunde theories in Africa, and the Rwandan genocide. The article starts with a short genesis of the concept of cultural expertis…
The rise of cultural expertise in litigation
Cultural Expertise, Law, and Rights: A Comprehensive Guide
Cultural expertise and legal pluralism in the United Kingdom, France, and Italy
International audience
Cultural expertise and legal pluralism: Introduction to the special section
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