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Title Law, legal culture and society : mirrored identities of the legal order / edited by Alberto Febbrajo
Published London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2019

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Series Studies in the sociology of law
Studies in the sociology of law.
Contents Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of figures and tables; Notes on contributors; Introduction; PART I: Towards a reflexive legal culture; 1 The normative anatomy of society; 2 A typology of legal cultures; 3 Pluripoiesis of law and the kaleidoscope of legal cultures; 4 Towards a global legal culture? Spaces of law in the transnational constellation; 5 Competing mirrors: law's blind spots in philosophical and social-scientific review; PART II: On the multidimensional functioning of legal systems; 6 Normative force and political intelligence
7 Balancing legal principles and legal topics8 Questionable neutrality: personal values in judicial adjudication; 9 The leaking law; 10 The postmodern administrative law; PART III: A conceptual discussion; 11 The sociological observation of the theory and practice of law; 12 Some problems with 'reflexive law'; Index
Summary This volume addresses the pluralistic identity of the legal order. It argues that the mutual reflexivity of the different ways society perceives law and law perceives society eclipses the unique formal identity of written law. It advances a distinctive approach to the plural ways in which legal cultures work in a modern society, through the metaphor of the mirror. As a mirror of society, it distinguishes between the structure and function of legal culture within the legal system, and the external representation of law in society. This duality is further problematized in relation to the increasing transnationalisation of law. Based on a multi-level interpretation of the concept of legal culture, the work is divided into three parts: the first addresses the mutual reflections of social and legal norms that support a pluralist representation of internal legal cultures, the second concentrates on the external legal cultures that constantly enable pragmatic adjustments of the legal order to its social environment, and the third concludes the book with a theoretical discussion of the issues presented
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Sociological jurisprudence.
Legal polycentricity.
Law -- Mobility.
LAW -- Essays.
LAW -- General Practice.
LAW -- Jurisprudence.
LAW -- Paralegals & Paralegalism.
LAW -- Practical Guides.
LAW -- Reference.
Law -- Mobility.
Legal polycentricity.
Sociological jurisprudence.
Form Electronic book
Author Febbrajo, Alberto, editor
LC no. 2020691503
ISBN 9781351040327
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