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Author Hayden, Robert M

Title Social Courts in Theory and Practice : Yugoslav Workers' Courts in Comparative Perspective / Robert M. Hayden
Published Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016]
©1990

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Description 1 online resource
Series Law in Social Context
Contents Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Part I: The Problem and the Research -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. The Question of Method: An Ethnographic Study of a Court of Associated Labor -- Part II: Courts and Law In Modern Yugoslavia -- Chapter 3. Yugoslav S elf-Management and Law -- Chapter 4. Courts in Modern Yugoslavia -- Chapter 5. The Courts of Associated Labor, 1974 to 1984: Formal Structure -- Part III: The Case Study of the CAL In Belgrade -- Chapter 6. The Court and the Research -- Chapter 7. Cases Brought to the CAL; or, Who Uses the Court, and for What? -- Chapter 8. Participation in the CAL Process; or, Who Talks, About What? -- Part IV: Court Use as a Political Issue -- Chapter 9. Political Debates Over the CAL, 1981 to 1985 -- Chapter 10. Conclusions: The Courts of Associated Labor in Comparative Perspective -- Epilogue, March 1990: The Demise of the CALs? -- Notes -- Abbreviations -- Bibliography -- Index -- Backmatter
Summary This ethnographic study of a socialist labor court discusses the nature of social courts, which are judicial institutions staffed by lay people rather than lawyers
Notes In English
Online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed Dec. 09, 2016)
Subject Social courts -- Yugoslavia
LAW -- Courts.
Social courts
Yugoslavia
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781512802658
1512802654