Is there a modern legal culture?

Abstract

The following essay aims to delineate the concept of legal culture and explore the idea of a legal culture in modern law, i.e. that of our times, in the tradition of the Law and Society movement. Part of the tradition involves studying the role legal systems play in society, with this “in” reflecting a particular point of view, or a particular means of observing how law and legal systems do, in fact, function; what they do and how they do it. Our aim is to provide explanations, exploring their very essence, not so much by means of a prescriptive or dogmatic perspective, but rather based on observation.