Enculturing Law : New Agendas for Legal Pedagogy
Contents: Preface and acknowledgements. Introduction/Mathew John and Sitharamam Kakarala. Contributors. I. The Pedagogy of law: 1. Enculturing law?: some Unphilosophic remarks/Upendra Baxi. 2. Culture, comparison, community: social studies of law today/Roger Cotterrell. 3. Cultures of criticism/Tim Murphy. 4. Legal systems, legal traditions and legal education/H. Patrick Glenn. 5. Teaching legal culture/Volkmar Gessner. 6. Of pedagogy and suffering: Civil Rights Movements and teaching of human rights in India/Sitharamam Kakarala. 7. Retrieving Indian Law: Colonial erasures, postcolonial pedagogies/Dattathreya Subbanarasimha. II. The performance of law: 8. The Unspeakable Violence of Isoor, 1942/Janaki Nair. 9. Colonial laws and Indian debates: suggestions for revised readings/Tanika Sarkar. 10. How Indian is Indian Law/Oliver Mendelsohn. 11. State control and sexual morality: the case of the bar dancers of Mumbai/Flavia Agnes. 12. \'You Can See Without Looking\': the cinematic \'Author\' and freedom of expression in the Cinema/Ashish Rajadhyaksha. Index.
"This collection of essays carries forward the debates that emerged at a Seminar on \'Enculturing Law\' held at Bangalore in August 2005, organized by the Centre for the study of culture and society in collaboration with the National Law School of India University and the Alternative Law Forum. The seminar sought to address questions related to interdisciplinary pedagogy in the study of Indian law, arguing in favour of a different approach to legal studies by foregrounding the significance of law as a part of a liberal education.
The twelve essays included in this volume (of which all but one were presented at the seminar) are concerned with two broad themes: the pedagogy of law; and sites of interdisciplinarity that view law as a broader, social--legal phenomenon. The essays that deal with the first theme contextualize legal education in India over the last fifty-odd years by charting some of the important debates in the field and explaining the emphasis on the positivist method. Essays on the second theme view the \'performance of law\' from perspectives such as those of feminist legal study, historical study, human rights study and cultural analysis." (jacket)
