ABSTRACT
This remarkable and comprehensive volume uses the concept of “cultural expertise” to crystallize a range of pressing dilemmas for social scientists, legal scholars, lawyers and others, and to offer – collectively – a series of ethically grounded, but also practical, responses to these dilemmas that reframe the basis for expert participation in legal, political and social life, while at the same time revealing expansive interpretations of the meaning of expertise itself. In this brief afterword, I want to highlight what appear to me to be the most far-reaching implications of the volume, beyond the exhaustive manner in which the conceptual, regional and ethical nuances of cultural expertise are drawn out across the book's 29 chapters.
