Laypeople in Law - Socio-Legal Perspectives on Non-Professionals

This book contributes to a better understanding of the role laypeople hold in the social functioning of law.It adopts the scholarly insight that the law is unthinkable without an everyday legal understanding of the law pursued by laypeople. It engages with the assumption that not only the law's existence but also its development is shaped by the layperson's affirmations, oppositions, ignorance, or negations of the law. This volume thus aims to fill a void in socio-legal studies. Whereas many sociolegal theories tend to conceptualize the law through legal experts' actions, institutions, procedures, and codifications, it argues that such a viewpoint underestimates the role of laypeople in the law's processing and advocates for a strengthened conceptual place in socio-legal theory.This book will appeal to socio-legal scholars and sociologists (of law), as well as to legal practitioners and laypersons themselves.

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• Authors: Andrea Mouralis Kretschmann
• Assisted by: Andrea Kretschmann (Editor), Guillaume Mouralis (Editor), Mouralis Guillaume (Editor), Ulrike Zeigermann (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.06.2024
• EAN: 9780367680978
• ISBN: 978-0-367-68097-8
• No. of pages: 192
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Social sciences, law, business > Law > Miscellaneous; Sociology, POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Policy, LAW / Civil Procedure, LAW / Constitutional, LAW / Litigation, Politics & government, Social issues & processes, Politics and government, Social Law, Social and ethical issues, Law & society, Law and society, sociology of law, Constitutional & administrative law, Constitutional and administrative law: general, Social law and Medical law, Civil procedure, litigation & dispute resolution