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Provides a novel methodological approach to the study of popular and professional legal culture within the European context.
List of contents
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?; Appendix: data collection.
About the author
Åse B. Grødeland is senior researcher at Fafo Institute for Applied International Studies, Oslo, Norway. Her forthcoming publications on legal culture include The End of National Legal Culture? The Case of Norway (with Janne H. Matlary and Morten Kinander, 2016).William L. Miller is Professor Emeritus and former Edward Caird Professor of Politics at the University of Glasgow. His most recent books include Multicultural Nationalism: Islamophobia, Anglophobia and Devolution (with Asifa Hussain, 2006) and The Open Economy and its Enemies: Public Attitudes in East Asia and Eastern Europe (with Jane Duckett, Cambridge, 2006).
Summary
Are national legal cultures in Europe converging or diverging as a result of the pressures of European legal integration? Åse B. Grødeland and William L. Miller address this question by exploring the attitudes and perceptions of the general public and law professionals in England, Norway, Bulgaria, Poland and the Ukraine.
