Center for Transcultural Studies: Publications/Mertz 1987

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No. 15. "'Realist' Models of Judicial Decision-Making," Elizabeth Mertz, 1987.

The legal treatment of squatters across different periods of history and across different cultures affords an excellent example of the role of cultural contexts in providing a crucial background of meaning; legal treatment of squatters has varied with changing social structures and attitudes regarding property and land settlement, and with differences in attitude toward the individual's place in society--as well as toward intentionality itself.

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