This article seeks to provide an overview of how the controversial concept of legal culture
has been used so as to clarify its potential role in further developing comparative studies of …

What is legal culture? This has proved an enormously productive concept, used to describe
the characteristics of whole countries, for example as' litigious societies', or to refer to …

This paper addresses the controversial concept of legal culture. It first considers the different
meanings of the term and the variety of debates in which it figures. It then goes on to …

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This review essay draws on a recently edited handbook by Esin Örücü and David Nelken to
reflect on the methodological concerns and challenges of comparative law and sociolegal …

Law and law-like institutions are visible in human societies very distant from each other in
time and space. When it comes to observing and analysing such social constructs historians …

The concept of legal culture exacerbates confusions that already plague general uses of the
concept of culture. Uses try to focus research on a wide range of action, experiences and …

Legal culture, in its most general sense, is one way of describing relatively stable patterns of
legally oriented social behaviour and attitudes. But the concept of legal culture is certainly …

To address the question of whether there is a cultural studies of law, I will explore
contemporary scholarship that assumes cultural perspectives on law by focusing on some of …

ROWING INTEREST in comparing legal cultures is an obvious~ concomitant to increasing
contact among cultures, moves towards trading and political unions, as well as more specific …