Books written by Franz von Benda-Beckmann

  • Changing Properties of Property
    Changing Properties of Property

    Chapter 1 The Properties of Property * Franz von Benda - Beckmann Keebet von Benda - Beckmann Melanie G. Wiber The most serious single source of misunderstanding of the concepts of alien cultures is inadequate mastery of the concepts of ...

  • Spatializing Law: An Anthropological Geography of Law in Society
    Spatializing Law: An Anthropological Geography of Law in Society

    Although a legal forum, every effort is made to encourage children and families to participate in proceedings by dispensing ... Despite these efforts children and young people's participation at hearings has always been problematic.

  • Changing Properties of Property
    Changing Properties of Property

    As an important contribution to debates on property theory and the role of law in creating, disputing, defining and refining property rights, this volume provides new theoretical material on property systems, as well as new empirically ...

  • Mobile People, Mobile Law: Expanding Legal Relations in a Contracting World
    Mobile People, Mobile Law: Expanding Legal Relations in a Contracting World

    Mobile people, mobile law: an introduction, Franz von Benda-Beckmann, Keebet von Benda-Beckmann and Anne Griffiths; Transborder citizenship: an outcome of legal pluralism within transnational social fields, Nina Glick Schiller; Transnational...

  • Living Law in the Low Countries
    Living Law in the Low Countries

    Living Law in the Low Countries

  • Rules of Law and Laws of Ruling: On the Governance of Law
    Rules of Law and Laws of Ruling: On the Governance of Law

    Offering an anthropological perspective, this volume explores the changing relations between law and governance, examining how changes in the structure of governance affect the relative social significance of law within situations of legal ...

  • Rules of Law and Laws of Ruling: On the Governance of Law
    Rules of Law and Laws of Ruling: On the Governance of Law

    Offering an anthropological perspective, this volume explores the changing relations between law and governance, examining how changes in the structure of governance affect the relative social significance of law within situations of legal ...

  • Dynamics of Plural Legal Orders
    Dynamics of Plural Legal Orders

    This volume examines dynamics of legal pluralism and explores the varied ways in which constellations of legal pluralism play out in social life.