European legal cultures in transition / Åse B. Grødeland and William L. Miller
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- 9781107050358
- 340.115 GRO.E
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Dept. of Law Processing Center | Dept. of Law | 340.115 GRO.E (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | LAW4658 |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 516-540) and index.
Machine generated contents note: Preface; 1. One European legal culture or several?; 2. Concept/meaning of 'law'; 3. Law in principle; 4. Law in action; 5. Perceptions of legal outsiders; 6. Perceptions of legal insiders; 7. Legal change and legal transfers; 8. Muslims and Euro-migrants as carriers of legal culture; 9. Balancing civil rights against a 'war on terror'; 10. The role of religiosity in European popular legal cultures; 11. A European legal culture?
"Are national legal cultures in Europe converging or diverging as a result of the pressures of European legal integration? Åse B. Grødeland and and William L. Miller address this question by exploring the attitudes and perceptions of the general public and law professionals in five European countries: England, Norway, Bulgaria, Poland and the Ukraine. Presenting new findings, they challenge the established view that ordinary citizens and people working professionally with the law have different legal cultures. Their research in fact reveals that the attitudes of citizens in Eastern and Western Europe towards 'law-in-principle' are remarkably similar, whereas perceptions of 'law-in-practice' differ by country and often correlate with GDP per capita and country ranking in rule of law indices. Grødeland and Miller's innovative methodological approach will appeal to both experts and non-experts with an interest in legal culture, European integration, or European elite and public opinion"--
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