Cultural Bias in the American Legal System
- 1 August 1969
- journal article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Law & Society Review
- Vol. 4 (1) , 79-110
- https://doi.org/10.2307/3052763
Abstract
Generally, studies in legal anthropology have tended to focus on the codes, written or unwritten, by which behavior is regulated in human societies and on the regularized processes by which conflicts are resolved in accordance with these codes. Thus, in considering a cross-cultural operational definition of law, Nader (1965: 6) notes that all societies have rules governing behavior, some preferential and some prescribed.Keywords
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