Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-18840-2 — Insiders, Outsiders, Injuries, and Law Edited by Mary Nell Trautner Frontmatter More Information insiders, outsiders, injuries, & law A central theme of law and society is that people’s ideas about law and the decisionstheymaketomobilizelawareshapedbycommunitynormsandcultural context.Butthiswasnotalwaysanestablishedconcept.Amongthefirstempirical pieces to articulate this theory was David Engel’s 1984 article “The Oven Bird’s Song: Insiders, Outsiders, and Personal Injuries in an American Community.” Morethanthirtyyearslater,thisarticleisnowwidelyconsideredtobepartofthe lawandsocietycanon.ThisbookarguesthatEngel’sarticlesucceedssobrilliantly because it integrates a wide variety of issues, such as cultural transformation, attitudes about law, dispute processing, legal consciousness, rights mobilization, inclusion and exclusion, and inequality. Contributors to this volume explore the influenceofEngel’simportantwork,engagingwiththepossibilitiesinitschallen- ging hypotheses and provocative omissions related to the legal system and legal process,classconflictanddifference,andlawinothercultures. MaryNellTrautnerisAssociateProfessorofSociologyattheUniversityatBuffalo, SUNY.SheearnedherPh.D.inSociologyfromtheUniversityofArizona.Sheis currently working on a National Science Foundation–funded study of how fam- ilies cope and make decisions about their child’s birth injuries. Her research appears in Gender & Society, American Sociological Review, Law & Policy, and otheroutlets. © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-18840-2 — Insiders, Outsiders, Injuries, and Law Edited by Mary Nell Trautner Frontmatter More Information Cambridge Studies in Law and Society CambridgeStudiesinLawandSocietyaimstopublishthebestscholarlyworkon legaldiscourseandpracticeinitssocialandinstitutionalcontexts,combining theoreticalinsightsandempiricalresearch. Thefieldsthatitcoversare:studiesoflawinaction;thesociologyoflaw;the anthropologyoflaw;culturalstudiesoflaw,includingtheroleoflegaldiscoursesin socialformations;lawandeconomics;lawandpolitics;andstudiesofgovernance. Thebooksconsiderallformsoflegaldiscourseacrosssocieties,ratherthanbeing limitedtolawyers’discoursesalone. 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LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData names:CelebratingDavidEngel’s“TheOvenBird’sSong”(Conference)(2015: BaldyCenterforLawandSocialPolicy(Buffalo,N.Y.)|Trautner,MaryNell,1974-| BaldyCenterforLawandSocialPolicy(Buffalo,N.Y.),sponsoringbody. title:Insiders,outsiders,injuries,&law:revisiting“theovenbird’ssong”/ editedbyMaryNellTrautner,UniversityofBuffalo. description:NewYork,NY,USA:CambridgeUniversityPress,2018.| Series:Cambridgestudiesinlawandsociety|Includespaperspresentedattheconference “CelebratingDavidEngel’s“TheOvenBird’sSong”heldonOctober23,2015atthe BaldyCenterforLaw&SocialPolicyattheUniversityatBuffalo.|“DavidM.Engel. 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Her research investigates how states constitute themselves as social actors. Shehaswrittenonhowgovernmentadministratorsjustifythelawandconstruct democraticidentities;howinformationundercutsknowledgeinnationalsecur- ity governance; and how courts evaluate non-legal realities and misrecognize their own interpretive practices. Spanning theUnitedStates andTaiwan, her current projects aim to illuminate everyday practices of legal interpretation amonggovernmentactorsinthosetwoverydifferentdemocracies. Anne Bloom is Executive Director of the Civil Justice Research Institute at the UniversityofCalifornia Berkeley and Irvine Schools ofLaw. She holds a JD and a PhD in political science. Previously, she was Associate Dean for ScholarshipandProfessorofLawatMcGeorgeLawSchool,whereshetaught courses in litigation, law and politics, and public interest law. She has also served as the Associate Director of the Civil Justice Program at Loyola Law SchoolandtheDirectorofPublicProgramsatEqualJusticeWorks.Annehas significant experience as a public interest lawyer, primarily with Public Just- ice, where she worked for more than ten years litigating precedent-setting cases.Shehasauthoredmanyarticlesonlawandsociety-relatedsubjectsand is currently working on an edited collection of essays on injuries in cultural perspective,which will bepublished by Cambridge University Press. Annie Bunting is Associate Professor in the Law & Society program at York University in Toronto, teaching in the areas of legal pluralism and human rights. She is currently directing an international research collaboration on forced marriage in conflict situations with historians of slavery and women’s human rights scholars. Her books include Marriage by Force? Contestations vii © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-18840-2 — Insiders, Outsiders, Injuries, and Law Edited by Mary Nell Trautner Frontmatter More Information viii NotesontheContributors overCoercionandConsentinAfrica(editedwithBenjaminN.Lawranceand Richard L. Roberts, 2016) and Contemporary Slavery: Popular Rhetoric and PoliticalPractice (edited with Joel Quirk, 2017). RenéeAnnCramerPhDisProfessorandChairofLaw,Politics,andSociety atDrakeUniversity.Hersecondbook,PregnantwiththeStars:Watchingand WantingtheCelebrityBabyBump,onourobsessionwithcelebritypregnancy, waspublishedin2015.Crameriscurrentlyworkingonaprojectmappingthe regulationofhomebirthmidwifery,fundedbytheNationalScienceFounda- tion. She teaches a wide range of interdisciplinary courses in undergraduate legalstudies,andservesaspresidentoftheConsortiumofUndergraduateLaw and Justice Programs. Eve Darian-Smith is Professor of Anthropology and Law and Director of International Studies at the University of California, Irvine. She is also an adjunct professor in the School of Regulation and Global Governance, AustralianNationalUniversity.Trainedasalawyer,historian,andanthropolo- gist, she is interested in issues of postcolonialism, legal pluralism, and socio- legal theory and has published widely, including ten books and edited volumes. Her first book, Bridging Divides: The Channel Tunnel and English LegalIdentityintheNewEurope(2009),wontheLaw&SocietyAssociation HerbertJacobBookPrize.HermorerecentbookLawsandSocietiesinGlobal Contexts(2013)wontheInternationalBookAwardinlawandtheKevinBoyle Book Award. Her upcoming book is The Global Turn: Theories, Research Designs and Methods (2017). She is on various editorial boards, including thoseoftheCanadianJournalofLawandSocietyandSocial&LegalStudies, andsheisaformerassociateeditorofAmericanEthnologistandLaw&Society Review.Sheisalsocurrentlyontheexecutivecommitteeandboardoftrustees ofthe Law & Society Association. DavidM.EngelisSUNYDistinguishedServiceProfessorofLawattheState University of New York at Buffalo, a former President of the Law & Society Association, and the recipient of that Association’s 2017 Kalven Award for Outstanding Scholarship in Law and Society. He studies law, culture, and societyinAmerica andThailand,wherehehaslived,worked,andtaughtfor many years. His book Tort, Custom, and Karma: Globalization and Legal Consciousness in Thailand (2010) examines the effects of global transform- ations on Thailand’s legal culture, and The Myth of the Litigious Society: Why We Don’t Sue (2016) explains American injury victims’ avoidance of claiming. Engel is a visiting professor at the Chiang Mai University Law School, from which he received an honorary doctorate in 2011. He serves as © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-18840-2 — Insiders, Outsiders, Injuries, and Law Edited by Mary Nell Trautner Frontmatter More Information NotesontheContributors ix aneditor-in-chiefoftheAsianJournalofLawandSocietyandisamemberof the inaugural Board of Trustees ofthe Asian Law and Society Association. ValerieP.HansisProfessorofLawatCornellLawSchool,wheresheteaches courses on law and social science, empirical legal studies, torts, and the contemporary American jury. Trained as a social psychologist, she has con- ducted extensive research and lectured widely about juries, jury reform, and otherlawandsocialscienceissues.ProfessorHanshaswrittenmorethanone hundredscholarlyarticlesandistheauthororeditorofeightbooks.Herlatest bookisThePsychologyofTortLaw(2016),coauthoredwithJenniferRobben- nolt. She served as President of the Law & Society Association from 2015 to 2017. AlfredS.Konefsky,aUniversityatBuffaloDistinguishedProfessorEmeritus, joined the SUNY Buffalo Law School faculty in 1977 after serving as the Charles Warren Fellow in American Legal History at Harvard Law School and as editor of The Legal Papers of Daniel Webster at Dartmouth College. He taught contracts and a variety of courses in American legal history, including the subject areas of the nineteenth century (from the Revolution to the Civil War), the colonial period, law and American labor history, American constitutional history, and Herman Melvilleand the law. JamieLongazelisAssociateProfessorofLaw&SocietyintheDepartmentof PoliticalScienceatJohnJayCollege.Hisrecentbook,UndocumentedFears: ImmigrationandthePoliticsofDivideandConquerinHazleton,Pennsylvania, won the North Central Sociological Association’s Scholarly Achievement Award. It examines the politics of race and class surrounding Hazleton’s 2006 passage of an exclusionary immigration ordinance. He is also the coau- thor ofThePainsof Mass Imprisonment (with Benjamin Fleury-Steiner). His work on race, immigration control, and political economy has appeared in publicationssuchasLaw&SocialInquiry,Punishment&Society,Theoretical Criminology,andthe Chicana/o-Latina/o Law Review. Stewart Macaulay is the Malcolm Pitman Sharp Professor Emeritus of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is a past president of the Law and Society Association and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.Hepioneeredthestudyofbusinesspracticesandtheworkoflawyers relatedtocontracts.Heistheauthorofthefrequentlycited“Non-Contractual Relations in Business: A Preliminary Study” (American Sociological Review, 1963) and coeditor of Law in Action: A Socio-Legal Reader (with Lawrence Friedman and Elizabeth Mertz, 2007) and Contracts: Law in Action (with WilliamWhitford, Kathryn Hendley, andJonathan Lipson; 4thed., 2017). © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org