Inventing Law in Local Settings: Rethinking Popular Legal Culture

Inventing Law in Local Settings: Rethinking Popular Legal Culture

Like the notion of "popular culture," popular legal culture implies an official culture of law's existence distinct from everyday legal practices and understandings. The "popular" legal culture idea is jettisoned in favor of the position that law is both shaped in local term...

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Veröffentlicht in:The Yale law journal 1989-06, Vol.98 (8), p.1689-1709
1. Verfasser: Yngvesson, Barbara
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Anthropology
Attorneys
Communities
Court orders
Criminal complaints
Culture
Law
Local conflict
Magistrates
Mediation
Neighborhoods
Plaintiffs
Popular culture
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Zusammenfassung:Like the notion of "popular culture," popular legal culture implies an official culture of law's existence distinct from everyday legal practices and understandings. The "popular" legal culture idea is jettisoned in favor of the position that law is both shaped in local terms and produced by power relations that define particular configurations of law.
ISSN:0044-0094
1939-8611
DOI:10.2307/796612