Cultural Expertise: An Emergent Concept and Evolving Practices

• Main Author: Holden, Livia (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2020
• Subjects: law and culture; human rights; socio-legal studies; court cases; multiculturalism; National Strategy; judiciary; Sweden; indigenous rights; Roma; peyote; FGM/C; strategic litigation; legal anthropology; cultural test; cross-cultural dispute resolution; cultural rights; cultural experts; immigrants; psychiatric evaluation; controlled substances; applied anthropology; law and society; multicultural societies; Sami; First Nations; expert testimony; cultural defense; Italian criminal justice system; culture; migration; criminal anthropology; Italy; Bondo; anthropology of law; cultural expertise; entheogens; experts
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Cultural expertise in the form of expert opinions formulated by social scientists appointed as experts in the legal process is not different from any other kind of expertise in court. In specialised fields of law, such as native land titles in America and in Australia, the appointment of social scie...