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Comparing Legal Cultures

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Publisher
Ashgate/Routledge
Year
1997
Tongue
English
Leaves
283
Edition
1
Category
Library
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✦ Synopsis

This volume cross-examines mainstream approaches to studying legal culture (e.g. those of Friedman and Blankenburg). It includes debates over the concept of legal culture and a variety of case studies of different legal cultures.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Half Title
Dedication
Title
Copyright
Contents
List of Contributors
Comparing Legal Cultures: An Introduction
PART I INVOKING LEGAL CULTURE: DEBATES AND DISSENTS
1 The Concept of Legal Culture
2 The Concept of Legal Culture: A Reply
3 Civil Litigation Rates as Indicators for Legal Cultures
4 Puzzling Out Legal Culture: A Comment on Blankenburg
5 Comparative Criminal Law for Criminologists: Comparing for What Purpose?
6 Sociological Uses of the Concept of Legal Culture
7 Comparing Legal Cultures in the Quest for Law's Identity
8 Gender and Nature in Comparative Legal Cultures
PART II DISCLOSING LEGAL CULTURE: THE PRODUCTION OF DIFFERENCE
9 An Entrepreneurial Conception of the Law? The American Model through Italian Eyes
10 Prosecution in Two Civil Law Countries: France and Italy
11 The Enigma of Japan as a Testing Ground for Cross-Cultural Criminological Studies
12 Patients' Rights, Citizens' Movements and Japanese Legal Culture
13 Remembering and Forgetting: The Birth of Modern Copyright Law
Index

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