{"product_id":"the-rights-of-groups-understanding-community-in-the-eyes-of-the-law-hardback-9781479830411","title":"The Rights of Groups; Understanding Community in the Eyes of the Law (Hardback) 9781479830411","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Rights of Groups\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eUnderstanding Community in the Eyes of the Law\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eLawrence Rosen (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781479830411\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 13 August 2024\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e160 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.7 cm, 0.404 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eConcise yet rich in insight, \u003ci\u003eThe Rights of Groups\u003c\/i\u003e is a continuation of an exemplary academic\u003cbr\u003e career. Rosen's analyses here vindicate anthropology's significant importance for understanding\u003cbr\u003e and confronting the present and future. He harnesses the central concepts of anthropology to\u003cbr\u003e illuminate contemporary jurisprudence from a view external to it. He then enters jurisprudential\u003cbr\u003e analysis clarifying how a term like community can have analytic teeth. For Rosen, community is\u003cbr\u003e not merely an add on after policy or case judgments are completed. In the 1980's, the legal\u003cbr\u003e academy had as one significant thread a demand to \"take rights seriously.\" The point was that\u003cbr\u003e rights' talk was honored only verbally and not materially. Rosen's call here is to take culture\u003cbr\u003e seriously in jurisprudence itself.\u003c\/p\u003e - Leonard V. Kaplan, University of Wisconsin-Madison \u003cp\u003eBringing to bear stellar expertise both in anthropology and law, Lawrence Rosen deftly guides\u003cbr\u003e his readership through wide-ranging case studies persuasively showing how US law can benefit\u003cbr\u003e from greater theoretical sophistication regarding concepts like 'community' or 'culture.' Rosen's\u003cbr\u003e argument must appeal to all jurists committed to a deep understanding of law. As a\u003cbr\u003e comparativist, I rejoice that someone of Rosen's intellectual standing should compellingly\u003cbr\u003e address such challenging words as 'community' and 'culture.' These insights will stand me in\u003cbr\u003e excellent stead in the classroom.\u003c\/p\u003e - Pierre Legrand, Ecole de droit de la Sorbonne, France Rosen delivers an insightful analysis of how the Supreme Court should understand community when determining the rights of groups. (CHOICE)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eArgues that a refined concept of culture can be used by American courts to better analyze cases that cover the sense of community.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Supreme Court Justices frequently justify their opinions in terms of the traditions and customs of a community. Yet, the rights and interests of entities that fit neither with the state nor the individual are treated as fluid and subjective, often existing without clarity in the current legal framework. \u003ci\u003eThe Rights of Groups\u003c\/i\u003e focuses on a series of specific examples to argue that a more refined concept of culture than has been employed by American courts could offer better ways to analyze a broad range of cases that employ the notion of community.\u003cbr\u003e Through an original reading of the Ninth Amendment, Lawrence Rosen illustrates how a constitutional consideration for group protections might be applied to decisions arising before the Supreme Court, including the decision to overturn \u003ci\u003eRoe v. Wade\u003c\/i\u003e. Similarly, in other chapters, Rosen shows how a revised theory of culture can change the concepts—including those of \"community\"—that courts currently apply, whether it is the application of indigenous concepts of value to revise the statutes governing intellectual property, the importance to native peoples that burial remains be returned to the group, the role a community can play in the responsibilities attendant on the prudent investor rule, the cultural organization of Western states' water resources, or the implementation of a new basis for group defamation suits. The book thus concludes with a call for a more sophisticated concept of culture that can sharpen our usage of the legitimate rights and interests of those entities that fit neither with the state nor the individual.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"NYU Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52591100952856,"sku":"9781479830411","price":22.96,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-rights-of-groups-understanding-community-in-the-eyes-of-the-law-hardback-9781479830411","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}