Beschreibung
This handbook is the first to comprehensively present selected national legal cultures based on a very specific set of structural elements which can be found in all legal cultures. Looking at these elements separately enables the reader to identify similarities and differences and to explain them contextually. Understanding general features of legal cultures can help avoiding misunderstandings or misinterpretations of foreign law and its application. Thus cooperation across boarder requires both knowledge of and understanding for different cultures. This is especially valid when it comes to law. Legal cultures are a product of and impacted by some fundamental and commonly shared ideas and expectations to law. In all modern societies these ideas are to a certain degree institutionalized or at least embedded in an institutionalized practise. These practices determine the way lawyers are educated and apply the law, how they engage with the ongoing internationalisation of law and what kind of values they adhere to.
Autorenporträt
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.
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