Laura Nader’s research while affiliated with California Science Center and other places

... Settling a case means securing financial compensation for the claimants and avoiding the risk of going to trial. Outofcourt settlements are thus a form of alternative dispute resolution (ADR) (Nader 1999). They make adjudication unnecessary or impossible, sup posedly functioning according to a 'harmony law model' (Nader 1999). ...

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Transnational Human Rights Litigation: A Means of Obtaining Effective Remedy Abroad?

... Such an enriched, broader, version of the legal formants approach goes beyond officialdom and professionalism. It shows that legal formants are not independent of social, economic, and cultural factors and that dimensions of power, and especially of power disparity, play an important role in shaping the law [8,13,15,29]. ...

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Shedding Light on the Dark Corners of the Law, by Walking Hand in Hand with Professor Sacco, Master of Italian Comparative Law

... In such cases, neutrality may appear to be a form of complicity with systems of power that harm marginalised groups. Critical scholarship has argued that anthropologists should use their expertise to challenge inequalities and support the rights of disenfranchised communities, even if it means sacrificing the perception of impartiality (Nader 1997;Mattei & Nader 2008). This position resonates with a growing number of social scientists who see their role as extending beyond the provision of evidence to include active engagement in advocacy against unjust policies and practices. ...

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The ethics of cultural expertise

... [6] Indeed, the same literature corpus may be used to argue different positions; e.g. the use, 10 and discernment of the significance of, the "Sokal case" (Frank 1998;Nader 1998). ...

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On Some Limits of Interdisciplinarity

... In addition, they allege that the approaches are only concerned with community harmony and not true justice and that they are open to abuse by the gerontocratic class and manipulation by the elite or partizan politicians. 99 On the other hand, African apologetics 100 for Indigenous approaches have established that because the strategies are dynamic in nature, they have survived cultural genocide by colonialism and can, therefore, also overcome their limitations. The apologists explain that, essentially, the approaches are viable as it is evident in many recorded instances like the few outlined above. ...

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Toward Sustainable Security in Africa: Theoretical Debates for the Institutionalization of African Indigenous Peacemaking Approaches

... To that end, Nader was dedicated to understanding the relationship between legal systems and their socioeconomic settings through a consideration of disputes as social processes embedded in social relations. The Talean data provided her with evidence, in combination with her earlier study of Lebanese village dispute handlers (Nader 1965), that there was a relationship between ''social organization and the development of dispute resolution mechanisms'' (Nader 1990:60). She looked at ''law within the matrix of the social system'' and showed it to be ''both an agent of control and subject to control'' (1990:180). ...

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Personal Encounters with the Work of Laura Nader

... This analogy has been drawn from a similar idea of Jonathan Marks about evolution and human nature: "To imagine that we are nothing but apes, and to find human nature there constitutes a denial of evolution"(Fuentes et al. 2010). 4 This article's background is based on research, literature reviews, issues of big data, and the ethical use of algorithms. ...

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New ethnographic perspective on relational ethics in the field of Artificial intelligence

... Strikingly, the intensity of participants' reactions predicted the magnitude of legal punishment, whether in the form of a fine or prison time, codified in these millennia-old criminal codes. This universalist paradigm-implicating our basic moral sensibilities in the genesis of legal doctrines-would also help explain the near-universal emergence of certain criminal laws (e.g., regarding murder, see Mikhail, 2009) and of legal institutions as a basic property of social groups (Brown, 1991;Hoebel, 1954;Nader, 1965). ...

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Are There Cross-Cultural Legal Principles? Modal Reasoning Uncovers Procedural Constraints on Law

... One should note, however, that this question can also arise among those who take the perspective of the potential user (seeNader, 1980;Buckle and Thomas-Buckle, 1982).s This way of thinking has been very influential among both social scientists writing about dispute processing and formalists. ...

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The “New Formalism” in Disputing and Dispute Processing

... These discussions, we argue, did lead anthropology to a renewed disciplinary mission (c.f. Nader 2001). With the benefit of hindsight, we describe that mission as follows: Anthropology is an academic discipline that strives to be societally relevant by being ever attentive to issues, themes, and events of vital public concern. ...

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Crossing at y/our own peril: Biocultural boundary crossing in anthropology