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Economics and Justice in the Ottoman Courts
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English - April 11, 2016 19:31 - ★★★★ - 2 ratingsPolitics News Music history ottoman empire turkey islam middle east Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
with Boğaç Ergene
hosted by Nir Shafir
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Were Ottoman courts just? Boğaç Ergene discusses this basic question in this podcast by forging a new path beyond the earlier views of the justice system as inherently fickle and capricious—immortalized in Weber’s concept of kadijustiz—and the idealistic views of Ottoman courts as a site of equal and fair treatment for all. Drawing on the results of research for his forthcoming publication with Metin Coşgel entitled The Economics of Ottoman Justice, Ergene argues for employing the quantitative methods of “law and economics” scholars, demonstrating that entrenched power holders in early modern Ottoman society were always able to use the Ottoman court system to produce outcomes favorable to themselves.
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