Laypeople in Law
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Laypeople in Law

Socio-Legal Perspectives on Non-Professionals

Andrea Kretschmann,Guillaume Mouralis,Ulrike Zeigermann

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Laypeople in Law

Socio-Legal Perspectives on Non-Professionals

Andrea Kretschmann,Guillaume Mouralis,Ulrike Zeigermann

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About This Book

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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Publisher
Routledge
Year
2024
ISBN
9781040041970
Edition
1
Topic
Law
Subtopic
Law Theory & Practice
Index
Law

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Table of Contents
  6. List of illustrations
  7. List of contributors
  8. 1. Laypeople in Law: Moving from a Blind Spot in Socio-Legal Studies Towards a Comprehensive Field of Research
  9. PART I Distinctions: On Blurring Boundaries Between Laypeople and Legal Experts
  10. PART II Contributions: On Laypeople in Law-Making, Norm Interpretation, and Judicial Formalisation
  11. PART III Appropriations: On the Mimesis of Judicial Forms
  12. PART IV Structurations: On Law as a Shaping Force
  13. Index