Doctoral Dissertation Research: Constructing Identity Through Legal Processes

这一研究项目考虑了当地文化如何影响法律的适用，使得同一法律问题在即使是相似的司法管辖区也可能具有非常不同的含义。具体地说，它审查了法律制度与普遍的身份建构的关系，以及通过法律程序重新强制或重建现有等级制度的方式。研究计划包括统计分析、法庭文件的内容分析和对律师的采访。它考虑了不同法律制度之间的差异。这项研究的结果有助于更好地理解法律制度塑造和被日常社会意义塑造的方式。因此，这些结果有助于确定法律程序与当地文化所表现出的普遍理解之间的全面关系。

This research project considers how local cultures influence the application of laws such that the same legal issue can acquire very different meanings across even similar jurisdictions. Specifically, it examines the relationship of legal regimes to popular constructions of identity and the manner by which existing hierachies are re-inforced or re-constructed through legal processes. The research plan involves statistical analysis, content analysis of court documents, and interviews with attorneys. It considers these differences across divergent legal regimes.The results of this research could facilitate a better understanding of the way that legal institutions shape, and are shaped, by everyday social meanings. As such, these results could help identify the comprehensive relationship of legal processes to the popular understandings displayed by local cultures.