Judgment of Culture

Lawrence Rosen is the William N. Cromwell Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at Princeton University, USA, and Adjunct Professor of Law at Columbia Law School, USA. As an anthropologist he has worked on Arab social life and Islamic law; as a legal scholar he has worked on the rights of indigenous peoples and American socio-legal issues. He is a member of the bar of the State of North Carolina and the U.S. Supreme Court.

• 1. Defending Culture: The Cultural Defense and the Law’s Theory of Culture 2. Leave It to the Experts? The Anthropologist as Expert Witness 3. What’s It Like? Native Americans and the Ambivalence of Legal Metaphors 4. Should We Just Abolish Marriage? The Uses of Anthropology in Law and Policy 5. What’s Wrong with Incest? Perception and Theory in a Shifting Legal Environmentt 6. Natural Law or Law Naturalized? Nature v. Culture in the U.S. Supreme Court 7. Medicalizing the Law: The Debate over Male Circumcision 8. The Incorporation of Custom: The Case of the Flashing Headlights 9. Is There a Place for Community? The Amish and the American Romance of