The Legal Cultures Project
This project examines the relationship between legal systems and the cultures in which they are embedded, with particular emphasis on the legal profession.
In 1993, this project sponsored a multidisciplinary conference on the relationship between legal systems and the cultures in which they are embedded, with particular emphasis on the legal profession. The editors explain that the concept of “legal culture” as they use it refers to living law or law as a dynamic process, in contrast to texts of statutes or organizational charts describing legal institutions. The authors agree that the concept of “legal culture” reflects something real in the living law of various legal systems of the world and that at least “dim outlines” of a world legal culture are visible, a subject they believe deserving of attention and further research by legal scholars and social scientists.
