Understanding Law in Micronesia: An Interpretive Approach to Transplanted Law

By Brian Z. Tamanaha

This book examines law in Micronesia from a novel perspective. It draws upon several branches of interpretive analysis, including mundane phenomenology, symbolic interaction, and cultural hermeneutics, to construct a comprehensive approach to transplanted systems of state law. Rather than the usual focus on legal norms and institutions, this approach directs attention to the law-related meaningful actions and understandings of legal actors and of non-legal actors.
Application of this approach results in insights about law in Micronesia, as well as about law itself, and about the ideology of law. A wide range of subjects are addressed, from the nature of legal thinking to the autonomy of law. It is a work in legal theory grounded in psychological, sociological and anthropological observations and analysis.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004097686
• ISBN13: 9789004097681
• Release Date: April 1993
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.3" x 9.4"