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The Cultural Conditionality of the Modern Approach towards Legal Otherness: A Socioanthropological Perspective.

The project focuses on the two perceptions of legal cultures (cultural evidence and foreign law) as manifested in two types of trials (asylum and the application of foreign law) in the Czech Republic as an empirical example of cultural conditionality of the modern approach towards legal otherness. The legal cultures represent an integral part of cultural identity. They are contested and negotiated. The project aims to analyze how the practices of coping with legal cultures reflect modernity as well as cultural (including legal) identity. Focusing on particular trouble cases (Llewellyn´s and Hoebel´s (1941) method) and their local and global level in multimethod research (Burawoy, 1998), the project will (a) produce a detailed understanding of the treatment of cultural identities and their legal aspects; (b) analyze discursive practices of making the representations of legal cultures; (c) explore the cultural conditionality of the modern approach towards legal otherness and how it become multilegal. The objective is to demonstrate how modernity transforms legal aspects of identities.

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