Legal Practice and Cultural Diversity

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Contents: Legal practice and cultural diversity: introduction, Roger Ballard, Alessandro Ferrari, Ralph Grillo, Andre J. Hoekema, Marcel Maussen and Prakash Shah Cultural diversity: challenge and accommodation, Roger Ballard, Alessandro Ferrari, Ralph Grillo, Andre J. Hoekema, Marcel Maussen and Prakash Shah Indian secular pluralism and its relevance for Europe, Werner Menski Legal pluralism and differentiated morality: Shari'a in Ontario?, Veit Bader Transforming to accommodate? Reflections on the Shari'a debate in Britain, Prakash Shah Shari'a in a European context, Mathias Rohe Objection, Your Honour! Accommodating niqab-wearing women in courtrooms, Natasha Bakht The challenge of African customary laws to English legal culture, Gordon R. Woodman Religious challenges to the secularized identity of an insecure polity: a tentative sociology of Quebec's 'reasonable accommodation' debate, Jean-FranA ois Gaudreault-DesBiens Does the Dutch judiciary pluralize domestic law?, Andre J. Hoekema The influence of culture on the determination of damages: how cultural relativism affects the analysis of trauma, Alison Dundes Renteln Jews and Muslims in France changing responses to cultural and religious diversity, Martine Cohen L'affaire du foulard in the shadow of the Strasbourg court: Article 9 and the public career of the veil in France, Claire de Galembert The changing position of religious minorities in English law: the legacy of Begum, Russell Sandberg Approaches to diversity in the domestic courts: Article 9 of the European Convention on Human Rights, Samantha Knights Human rights in contexts of ethnic plurality: always a vehicle for liberation?, Roger Ballard Index.