Understanding Law in Micronesia An Interpretive Approach to Transplanted Law

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.Tamanaha, Brian Z. is the author of 'Understanding Law in Micronesia An Interpretive Approach to Transplanted Law', published 1993 under ISBN 9789004097681 and ISBN 9004097686.