Legalism

Fernanda Pirie is University Lecturer in socio-legal studies at the University of Oxford, and Director of the University's Centre for Socio-Legal Studies. An anthropologist by training, following a career at the London Bar, she has carried out fieldwork for over a decade on the Tibetan plateau. Her studies have centred on conflict resolution, social order, and tribe-state relation. She is the author of The Anthropology of Law (2013). Judith Scheele is a social anthropologist and a post-doctoral research fellow at All Souls College, Oxford. Her research focuses on North Africa and the Sahara, in particular Algeria, Mali, and Chad. Her publications include Village Matters: Knowledge, Politics and Community in Kabylia (2009) and Smugglers and Saints of the Sahara: Regional Connectivity in the Twentieth Century (2012). The authors are among the coordinators of the Oxford Legalism project, which brings together scholars from law, history, anthropology, classics, and oriental studies in a series of seminars and workshops, to compare examples of legalistic thought, texts, and practices, from across the world.

Introduction: Law, Justice, and Community ; 1. From Theology to Law: Creating an Armenian Secular Lawcode ; 2. Lex scripta and the Problem of Enforcement: Anglo-Saxon, Welsh, and Scottish Law Compared ; 3. Outlawry, Exile, and Banishment: Reflections on Community and Justice ; 4. Justice Contested and Affirmed: Jurisdiction and Conflict in Late Medieval Italian Cities ; 5. Defining Boundaries: Law, Justice, and Community in Sixteenth-Century England ; 6. Regulating Community and Society at the Sorbonne in the Late Thirteenth Century ; 7. Community as an Achievement: Kabyle Customary Law and Beyond ; 8. 'Popular' and 'Official' Justice: Punishing Sexual Offenders in Tudor London ; 9. Community, Justice, and Legalism: Elusive Concepts in Tibet