RUI: Legal Pluralism and the Emergence of Legal Culture in Hawaii

尽管法律在使殖民主义合法化方面至关重要， 关于法律在人权领域的作用， 殖民过程。 本项目审查了 围绕着美国强加的统治和抵抗 19世纪夏威夷殖民时期的法律， 二十世纪。 殖民主义被概念化为一场斗争 在各种外国集团的利益和 土著民族 这场斗争也发生在法庭上， 就像在学校、市场、教堂和机构中一样 政府，将在文化背景下分析， 殖民者和被殖民者的政治 该项目包括 比较新英格兰下级法院， 哪种文化模式更相似， 殖民遗产。 该分析将研究 夏威夷和新英格兰，寻找 法律作为一种纪律和控制模式的历史使用 殖民地政府和目前的模式， 法院法和法律的意识形式是 夏威夷的殖民历史。 这项研究有望推进我们对法律的的理解 多元化是一个动态的过程。 特别是，这项研究应 阐明土著和强加的法律的文化 相互作用，相互转化， 强迫意识形态和榜样 此外，该项目 应该有助于分析文化作为一系列 竞争的话语或矛盾的元素，而不是一个 一个完整的或连续的实体。 最后，由于夏威夷 美国的持续问题，因为它既是 具有战略价值，但文化和种族不同， 研究将提供一个机会，探讨殖民话语 种族，身份，文化多样性和法律在美国 States.

Despite the central importance of law in legitimating colonialism, there has been only limited work on the role of law in the colonization process. This project examines processes of domination and resistance surrounding the imposition of American law during the colonization of Hawaii in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Colonialism is conceptualized as a struggle among the interests of various foreign groups and those of indigenous peoples. The struggle, located in the courts as well as in the schools, the market, the churches, and the institutions of government, will be analyzed in the context of the culture and politics of the colonizer and the colonized. The project includes a comparison of New England lower courts to provide a contrast in which cultural patterns are more similar and in which there is no colonial heritage. The analysis will examine differences between Hawaii and New England, searching for the implications of the historical use of law as a mode of discipline and control by the colonial government and the extent to which present patterns of court law and forms of legal consciousness are the legacy of Hawaii's historical experiences with colonialism. This research promises to advance our understanding of legal pluralism as a dynamic process. In particular, the study should illuminate the ways in which indigenous and imposed legal cultures interact and transform one another and the relative influence of coercion, ideology, and example in that process. Also, the project should contribute to the analysis of culture as a series of competing discourses or contradictory elements rather than an integrated or continuous entity. Finally, since Hawaii posed a continuing problem for the United States because it was both strategically valuable but culturally and racially different, this study will provide an opportunity to explore the colonial discourse of race, identity, cultural diversity, and law in the United States.