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Legal Culture and the Legal Profession

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Distinguished scholars in law and the social sciences examine the state of American legal culture, particularly adversarial legalism, in light of the criticisms of the current anti-lawyer movement. They assess the strengths and weaknesses of this culture,
Lawrence M. Friedman, Harry N. Scheiber
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Techno-legal culture

Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Theory and practice of electronic governance, 2009
This paper describes three possible solutions for the short, medium and long term to improve the Judicial System of Colombia, with the use of Information and Communication Technology. The first solution is to create a curriculum for training institutions to train professionals in the use of technology and electronic governance.
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Legal culture and cultures of legality

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2015
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 interpretations that surround law. Some uses limit the study to the unofficial and non-legal behaviors that are nonetheless important for shaping what is more ...
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Legal Culture and Legal Transplants

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2009
This working paper considers the legal system of England and Wales in terms of its impact on other legal systems and its reception of transplants from other legal systems. The paper was written to comply with a template established by the coordinator of a global representation of legal systems for the meeting of the Academy of International and ...
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Communities and Culture: Enriching Legal Consciousness and Legal Culture

Law <html_ent glyph="@amp;" ascii="&amp;"/> Social Inquiry, 2006
In Israel, Palestinian feminists have organized to prevent domestic violence and honor killings in the Palestinian community, seeking, among other things, greater state intervention on behalf of victims. In particular, these feminists want the Israeli criminal justice system to take the problem more seriously and demand more arrests and more ...
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Legal Cultures — Legal Languages

2009
Language is important. In 1944, allied intelligence in Italy intercepted a German message to an abbey, asking whether the abbot was still there. The answer was in the affirmative. The service, however, falsely took the German word Abt for abbot to be the standard abbreviation for Abteilung (division).
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Legal Culture

2016
Legal culture is a concept first used by US legal historians in the mid-1980s. It appeared under the influence of the Critical Legal Studies movement, which outlined both the indeterminacy of law and its role in social change. Surprisingly, this concept has no equivalent in other legal historiographies.
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Legal Cultures and Legal Transplants in Germany

European Review of Private Law, 2011
Abstract: At first glance, many jurists often perceive their own (Private) law to be somewhat hermetic in nature. Their law exists in its own self-contained cosmos, independent from others in the legal universe, yet its atmosphere is sometimes breached by the 'meteorites' of international and European law. The reasons for this perception are clear: it
André Janssen, Reiner Schulze
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Cultures of Legality

2010
Ideas about law are undergoing dramatic change in Latin America. The consolidation of democracy as the predominant form of government and the proliferation of transnational legal instruments have ushered in an era of new legal conceptions and practices. Law has become a core focus of political movements and policy-making.
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The (Legal) Culture of Cultural Property

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2014
The (Legal) Culture of Cultural ...
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