Overview
- Editors:
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Sören Koch
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Faculty of Law, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
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Marius Mikkel Kjølstad
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Faculty of Law, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
- Provides the first systematically organised overview over selected legal cultures
- Enables a rather different classification of legal systems than the traditional distinction between common & civil law
- Makes comparison of legal cultures possible
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Table of contents (27 chapters)
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- Sören Koch, Marius Mikkel Kjølstad
Pages 1-11
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- Konrad Lachmayer, Niklas Sonntag
Pages 75-105
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- Catalina Vallejo Piedrahíta, Tania Luna Blanco, Olga Velásquez Ocampo
Pages 239-283
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- Merike Ristikivi, Andreas Kangur, Irene Kull, Katre Luhamaa, Marin Sedman, Hesi Siimets-Gross et al.
Pages 389-418
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- Eyob Awash Gebremariam, Mulu Beyene Kidanemariam
Pages 419-462
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- Sunniva Cristina Bragdø-Ellenes, Iris Nguyên Duy
Pages 557-609
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- Esmeralda Colombo, Lars Kvestad
Pages 701-761
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- Monica Naime, Juan Luis Cervantes
Pages 763-799
About this book
Cooperation across borders requires both knowledge of and understanding of different cultures. This is especially true when it comes to the law. This handbook is the first to comprehensively present selected legal cultures based on a very specific set of structural elements which can be found in all such cultures. Legal cultures are a product of and impacted by certain fundamental and commonly shared ideas on and expectations of the law. In all modern societies these ideas are to a certain degree institutionalized or at least embedded in institutionalized practices. These practices determine the way lawyers are educated and apply the law, how they engage with the ongoing internationalization of law and what kind of values they adhere to. Looking at these elements separately enables the reader to identify similarities and differences and to explain them contextually. Understanding these general features of legal cultures can help avoid misunderstandings or misinterpretations of foreign law and its application. Accordingly, this handbook is a necessary starting point for all kinds of legal comparative studies conducted by academics, students, judges and other legal practitioners.
About the editors
Sören Koch is a full professor at the Faculty of Law in Bergen, Norway since 2015. His main fields of research are legal history and comparative law. As a German scholar working and teaching in Norway his interests have naturally turned towards comparative legal studies. In several publications he focused especially on aspects of legal methodology and mentalities as well as questions related to contract and tort law. He is the leader of the research group for Legal Culture, Legal History and Comparative Law in Bergen. He is a member of the scientific board of the Norwegian Association of Comparative Law, associated with BACL, and is a national rapporteur for Norway of IACL.
Marius Mikkel Kjølstad is a PhD Candidate at the Faculty of Law in Bergen, Norway, since 2020. He is writing his doctoral thesis within the field of legal history. He holds both a master degree in law from the University of Bergen and an LL.M. degree in legal theory from Goethe University Frankfurt.
