Is the law useful for the resolution of disputes?
This essay is for an anthropology of law module.
It needs to reference these readings:
Ellickson, Robert C. 1991. Order without Law: How Neighbors Settle Disputes. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press [Ch 3 and 10]
Grisel, Florian. forthc. The Limits of Private Governance: Norms and Rules in a Mediterranean Fishery. Oxford: Hart Publishing [Intro and Ch 1]
Ostrom, Elinor. 1990. Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press [Ch 1]
Mnookin, Robert H and Lewis Kornhauser. 1979. ‘Bargaining in the Shadow of the Law: The Case of Divorce’ 88: 950-997
Coleman, James S. 1988. ‘Social Capital in the Creation of Human Capital’, American Journal of Sociology 94: S95-S120
