Law & Culture

Culture, neuroscience, and law

Gerardo Salvato*, Roy Dings and Lucia Reuter 1 Department of Brain and Behavioral Sciences, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy 2 Department of Psychiatry, Oxford Centre for Human Brain Activity, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK 3 Department of Philosophy, Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, Netherlands 4 Department of Psychiatry, Charité University Hospital of Berlin, Berlin, Germany *Corresp...

Law, Culture, and Cultural Appropriation

Tort Law Culture in the United Kingdom:

This article highlights two contrasting sets of images of tort that are dominant in UK culture. The first set reflects various aspects of the traditional portrayal of justice, which depicts tort as an independent ‘natural’ system of rules of universal application forming the foundation of a just society. The second group of images is more recent and relates to the perceived development of a dam...

Circumstantial Evidence: Of Law, Literature, and Culture

Multiculturalism, Law and the Right to Culture

This is a brief paper on a complex subject. In it I note that there are at least three types of justifications for the right to culture. One is grounded in notions of fair treatment; another in the harm caused to individuals if there is a failure of cultural recognition; and a third in the importance of the inclusion of minority groups for the health of a democracy. I argue that when law is ask...