Mobile people, mobile law: expanding legal relations in a contracting world : [ ... developed from a conference held at the Max Plack Institute for Social Anthropology, November 7 - 11, 2002 in Halle/Saale, Germany]

1. Mobile people, mobile law : an introduction / Franz von Benda-Beckmann, Keebet von Benda-Beckmann and Anne Griffiths -- 2. Transborder citizenship : an outcome of legal pluralism within transnational social fields / Nina Glick Schiller -- 3. Transnational migration and the re-framing of normative values / Monique Nuijten -- 4. 'Global fire' : repatriation and reparations from a Rastafari (re)migrant's perspective / Werner Zips -- 5. McTradition in the new South Africa : commodified custom and rights talk with the Bafokeng and the Bapedi / Barbara Oomen -- 6. Democracy in flux : time, mobility and sedentarization of law in Minangkabau, Indonesia / Franz and Keebet von Benda-Beckmann -- 7. Mobile law and globalism : epistemic communities versus community-based innovation in the fisheries sector / Melanie G. Wiber -- 8. Contesting decentralization : transnational policy narratives and the emergence of volatile socio-legal configurations in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia / John F. McCarthy -- 9. Negotiating water rights in the context of a new political and legal landscape in Zimbabwe / Anne Hellum and Bill derman -- 10. The Americanization of international law / Laura Nader -- 11. Human rights and global legal pluralism : reciprocity and disjuncture / Sally E. Merry -- 12. Project law : normative orders of bilateral development cooperation and social change : a case study from the German agency for technical cooperation / Markus Weilenmann -- 13. School and religious difference: current negotiations within the Swiss Immigrant Society : viewed in a comparative perspective / Joanna Pfaff-Czarnecka -- 14. Localizing the global : rights of participation in the Scottish children's hearings system / Anne Griffiths and Randy F. Kandel -- 15. Mobility versus law, mobility in the law? Judges in Europe are confronted with the thorny question 'Which law applies to litigants of migrant origin?' / Marie-Claire Foblets.