Challenges to Public Participation in Environmental Decision-making
Presentation / Conference
Whitecross, R. (2014, July)
Challenges to Public Participation in Environmental Decision-making. Paper presented at European Association for South Asian Studies, Zurich
Whitecross, R. (2014, July). Challenges to Public Participation in Environmental Decision-making. Paper presented at European Association for South Asian Studies, Zurich.
Embedding PDP in the LLB.
Report
Whitecross, R. W. (2013)
Embedding PDP in the LLB. Edinburgh, Scotland: Higher Education Authority
Report on a Higher Education Authority Law Strategic Project.
Separating Religions and Politics? Buddhism and the Bhutanese Constitution
Book Chapter
Whitecross, R. (2013)
Separating Religions and Politics? Buddhism and the Bhutanese Constitution. In A. K. Thiruvengadam, V. Raghavan, & S. Khilnani (Eds.), Comparative Constitutionalism in South Asia (116-144). Oxford University Press
This chapter investigates Bhutan's constitutional history up to the 2008 Constitution. It specifically reflects on the relationship between Buddhism, the new Constitution, and...
Child Welfare Hearing Reports: A Scoping Study on the Commissioning, Preparation and Use of Bar Reports
Report
Whitecross, R. W. (2010)
Child Welfare Hearing Reports: A Scoping Study on the Commissioning, Preparation and Use of Bar Reports
A study of the use of Child Welfare Reports in Child Welfare Hearings in Scottish Sherifff Courts.
"Virtuous Beings"; The concept of tha damtshig and being a moral person in contemporary Bhutanese society
Journal Article
Whitecross, R. W. (2010)
"Virtuous Beings"; The concept of tha damtshig and being a moral person in contemporary Bhutanese society. Himalaya, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies, 28, 71-82
This paper sets out a preliminary investigation of tha damtshig. In particular, it examines the concept of tha damtshig, and its role in the creation of a sense of moral ident...
Intimacy, Loyalty and State Formation: The Spectre of the "Anti-National"
Book
Whitecross, R. (2010)
Intimacy, Loyalty and State Formation: The Spectre of the "Anti-National". In Kelly, T. & Thiranagama, S. (Eds.). Traitors: Suspicion, Intimacy, and the Ethics of State Building, 68-88. Penn State University Press. ISBN 978-0-8122-4213-3
On 19 April 1998, the Tiger’s Nest temple, in Taktshang, near Paro in western Bhutan, caught fire and was substantially destroyed. The destruction of this major Buddhist pilgr...
Keeping the Stream of Justice Clear and Pure: the Buddhicization of Bhutanese Law
Book Chapter
Whitecross, R. (2009)
Keeping the Stream of Justice Clear and Pure: the Buddhicization of Bhutanese Law. In A. Griffiths, K. von Benda-Beckmann, & F. von Benda-Beckmann (Eds.), The Power of Law in a Transnational World: Anthropological Enquiries (199-215). Berghahn Books
No abstract available.
Migrants, Settlers and Refugees: Law and the Contestation of Citizenship in Bhutan
Book Chapter
Whitecross, R. (2009)
Migrants, Settlers and Refugees: Law and the Contestation of Citizenship in Bhutan. In K. von Benda-Beckmann, & F. von Benda-Beckmann (Eds.), Spatializing Law: An Anthropological Geography of Law in Society (57-74). Routledge
No abstract available.
Transgressing the Law: Karma, Theft and its punishment
Journal Article
Whitecross, R. W. (2008)
Transgressing the Law: Karma, Theft and its punishment. Revue d'études tibétaines, 13, 45-74
A historical, legal study of the concept of theft in Bhutanese religious and legal thought.
Gross National Happiness and the Heavenly Stream of Justice: Modernization and Dispute Resolution in the Kingdom of Bhutan
Journal Article
Simoni, A., & Whitecross, R. W. (2007)
Gross National Happiness and the Heavenly Stream of Justice: Modernization and Dispute Resolution in the Kingdom of Bhutan. American Journal of Comparative Law, 55(1), 165-195. https://doi.org/10.1093/ajcl/55.1.165
The authors, reflecting on the paradigm of globalization, provide a case study that focuses on the modernization of the Bhutanese legal system. Historically isolated and never...