Law at Work Studies in Legal Ethnomethods

Baudouin Dupret is Research Director at French National Centre for Scientific Research.

Michael Lynch is a Professor of Science & Technology Studies at Cornell University.

Tim Berard is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Kent State University.

Introduction: Law at Work
Baudouin Dupret, Michael Lynch, and Tim Berard

Section I. Practical Action, Situated Interaction, and the Salience of Law
The Editors

Chapter One: The Practical Grammar of Law and Its Relation to Time
Baudouin Dupret and Jean-Noël Ferrie

Chapter Two: Aspiring Magistrates: Entry Exams and General Traineeship at the Court of Lecce
Luisa Zappulli and Karen Latricia Hough

Chapter Three: Practical Solutions: Praxiologial Analysis of Judgments in Civil Hearings
Pedtro Heitor Barros Geraldo

Section II. Practical Pedagogies in the Performance of Legal Activities
The Editors

Chapter Four: Hearing Clients' Talk as Lawyers' Work: The Case of Public Legal Consultation Conference
Shiro Kashimura

Chapter Five: Producing Records of Testimony: Some Competent Legal Methods for Incompetent Trials
Kenneth Liberman

Section III. Speech, Text, and Technology in Testimony
The Editors

Chapter Six: Reporting Talk When Testifying: Intertextuality, Consistency and Transformation in Witnesses Use of Direct Reported Speech
Renata Galatolo

Chapter Seven: Turning a Witness: The Textual and Interactional Production of a Statement in Adversarial Testimony
Michael Lynch

Chapter Eight : "Is there someone in my videoconference room?" Managing Remote Witnesses in Distributed Courtrooms
Christian Licoppe and Laurence Dumoulin

Section IV. Deviance, Membership Categories, and Legalities
The Editors

Chapter Nine: Hate Crimes, Labels, and Accounts: Pragmatic Reflections on U.S. Hate Crimes
Tim Berard

Chapter Ten: Descriptions of Deviance: Making the Case for Professional Help
Stephen Hester and Sally Hester

Chapter Eleven: Discursive Cartographies, Moral Practices: International Law and the Gaza War
Lena Jayyusi