Special issue : cultural expert witnessing

Studies in Law, Politics, and Society provides a vehicle for the publication of scholarly articles within the broad parameters of interdisciplinary legal scholarship. In this latest edition of this highly successful research series, chapters examine a diverse range of legal issues and their impact on and intersections with society. This volume is a collection of chapters exploring expert witnessing in Asylum Cases. Topics covered include: judicial ethnocentrism, political asylum, race identity and cultural defense. This volume brings together leading scholars and will be vital reading for all those researching in this subject area.

Introduction: Cultural expert testimony in American legal proceedings / Leila Rodriguez -- Expert witnessing in Honduran asylum cases : what difference can twenty years make? / James Phillips -- Judicial ethnocentrism versus expert witnesses in asylum cases / Murray J. Leaf -- Guilt, innocence, informant / Jeffrey H. Cohen and Lexine Trask -- Traversing boundaries : anthropology, political asylum and the provision of expert witness / Kathleen M. Gallagher -- Providing "race" identity of Chinese Indonesian asylum seekers / ChorSwang Ngin -- State your case : best practices for presenting a cultural defense in criminal litigation / Heather Crabbe.