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Cultural Expertise and Law in Ancient and Modern History Introduction: Why a history of cultural expertise?

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This forum develops within the European Research Council's Cultural Expertise in Europe: What is it useful for? (EURO-EXPERT) project. EURO-EXPERT aims to reformulate the emergent notion of cultural expertise as a concept that might extensively account for the use of social sciences in dispute resolution and in connection with rights claims. A threshold definition of cultural expertise was formulated as "the special knowledge that enables socio-legal scholars, or, more generally speaking, cultural mediators-the so-called cultural brokers-, to locate and describe relevant facts in light of the particular background of claimants and litigants and for the use of the court". 1 However, this definition is too restrictive because it does not account for the broader range of out-of-court procedures in which social sciences knowledge is applied to the resolution of conflicts, litigation, and the formulation of rights. EURO-EXPERT argues that a strictly legal approach to cultural expert witnessing undermines the array of socio-legal instruments that could be better appraised with the help of a broad concept of cultural expertise. Hence, the need for an integrated definition of cultural expertise that covers the larger range of phenomena explored throughout socio-legal studies. 2
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hal-03601003 , version 1 (08-03-2022)

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Livia Holden. Cultural Expertise and Law in Ancient and Modern History Introduction: Why a history of cultural expertise?. Law and History Review, 2020, 38 (1), pp.25-27. ⟨10.1017/S0738248019000786⟩. ⟨hal-03601003⟩
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