Table of Contents

Introduction: Law at Work
Baudouin Dupret, Michael Lynch, and Tim Berard

Section I. Practical Action, Situated Interaction, and the Salience of Law
The Editors

Chapter One: The Practical Grammar of Law and Its Relation to Time
Baudouin Dupret and Jean-Noël Ferrie

Chapter Two: Aspiring Magistrates: Entry Exams and General Traineeship at the Court of Lecce
Luisa Zappulli and Karen Latricia Hough

Chapter Three: Practical Solutions: Praxiologial Analysis of Judgments in Civil Hearings
Pedtro Heitor Barros Geraldo

Section II. Practical Pedagogies in the Performance of Legal Activities
The Editors

Chapter Four: Hearing Clients' Talk as Lawyers' Work: The Case of Public Legal Consultation Conference
Shiro Kashimura

Chapter Five: Producing Records of Testimony: Some Competent Legal Methods for Incompetent Trials
Kenneth Liberman

Section III. Speech, Text, and Technology in Testimony
The Editors

Chapter Six: Reporting Talk When Testifying: Intertextuality, Consistency and Transformation in Witnesses Use of Direct Reported Speech
Renata Galatolo

Chapter Seven: Turning a Witness: The Textual and Interactional Production of a Statement in Adversarial Testimony
Michael Lynch

Chapter Eight : "Is there someone in my videoconference room?" Managing Remote Witnesses in Distributed Courtrooms
Christian Licoppe and Laurence Dumoulin

Section IV. Deviance, Membership Categories, and Legalities
The Editors

Chapter Nine: Hate Crimes, Labels, and Accounts: Pragmatic Reflections on U.S. Hate Crimes
Tim Berard

Chapter Ten: Descriptions of Deviance: Making the Case for Professional Help
Stephen Hester and Sally Hester

Chapter Eleven: Discursive Cartographies, Moral Practices: International Law and the Gaza War
Lena Jayyusi

About the Author

Baudouin Dupret is Research Director at French National Centre for Scientific Research.

Michael Lynch is a Professor of Science & Technology Studies at Cornell University.

Tim Berard is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Kent State University.

Reviews

"The book offers a distinctive ethnomethodological approach to legal activities and insights into the study of law at work... The volume is very well organized and highly cohesive so that individual chapters clearly contribute to each wider topic. It will be very valuable for anyone interested in the ethnomethodological approaches to law today since it provides an excellent overview of the field, and offers a collection of articles that are interesting,
informative, and well written. Overall, this is a highly relevant, well researched and well-edited book which will certainly inspire future research. It will be of interest to anyone interested in legal
interactions and discourse.in the legal settings." -Lelija Socanac, LinguistList