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Nobody's law : legal consciousness and legal alienation in everyday life, Marc Hertogh

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Nobody's Law shows how people - who are disappointed, disenchanted, and outraged about the justice system - gradually move away from law. Using detailed case studies and combining different theoretical perspectives, this book explores the legal consciousness of ordinary people, businessmen, and street-level bureaucrats in the Netherlands. The empirical research in this study tells an original and alternative narrative about the role of law in everyday life. While previous studies emphasize the law's hegemony and argue that it's 'all over', Hertogh shows that legal proliferation makes it harder for people to know, and subsequently identify with, the law. As a result, official law has become increasingly remote and irrelevant to many people. The central finding presented in this highly topical text is that these developments signal a process of 'legal alienation'-- a gradual and mundane process with potentially serious consequences for the legitimacy of law. A timely and original study, this book will be of particular interest to scholars in the fields of law and society, socio-legal studies and legal theory
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eng
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xv, 215 pages
Contents
  • Nobody's law : past, present and future
  • Introduction
  • The myth of Dutch legal culture
  • Legalists, loyalists, cynics, and outsiders
  • Research methods : through the lens of legal consciousness
  • A school director and non-discrimination law
  • Contractors and competition law
  • Front-line officials and public law
  • Marking the unremarkable
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9781137603975
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Nobody's law : legal consciousness and legal alienation in everyday life
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Nobody's law
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legal consciousness and legal alienation in everyday life
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Marc Hertogh
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Language
eng
Summary
Nobody's Law shows how people - who are disappointed, disenchanted, and outraged about the justice system - gradually move away from law. Using detailed case studies and combining different theoretical perspectives, this book explores the legal consciousness of ordinary people, businessmen, and street-level bureaucrats in the Netherlands. The empirical research in this study tells an original and alternative narrative about the role of law in everyday life. While previous studies emphasize the law's hegemony and argue that it's 'all over', Hertogh shows that legal proliferation makes it harder for people to know, and subsequently identify with, the law. As a result, official law has become increasingly remote and irrelevant to many people. The central finding presented in this highly topical text is that these developments signal a process of 'legal alienation'-- a gradual and mundane process with potentially serious consequences for the legitimacy of law. A timely and original study, this book will be of particular interest to scholars in the fields of law and society, socio-legal studies and legal theory
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1968-
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Hertogh, M. L. M.
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illustrations
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index present
Literary form
non fiction
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bibliography
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  • Palgrave socio-legal studies
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  • Law (Philosophical concept)
  • Law
  • Law (Philosophical concept)
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Nobody's law : legal consciousness and legal alienation in everyday life, Marc Hertogh
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-206) and index
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text
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  • txt
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rdacontent
Contents
  • Nobody's law : past, present and future
  • Introduction
  • The myth of Dutch legal culture
  • Legalists, loyalists, cynics, and outsiders
  • Research methods : through the lens of legal consciousness
  • A school director and non-discrimination law
  • Contractors and competition law
  • Front-line officials and public law
  • Marking the unremarkable
Dimensions
22 cm.
Extent
xv, 215 pages
Isbn
9781137603975
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(eBook)
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2018942213
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unmediated
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rdamedia
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  • n
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GOBI Library Solutions from EBSCO
Other physical details
illustrations
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(OCoLC)1013934044
Label
Nobody's law : legal consciousness and legal alienation in everyday life, Marc Hertogh
Publication
Copyright
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-206) and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
  • Nobody's law : past, present and future
  • Introduction
  • The myth of Dutch legal culture
  • Legalists, loyalists, cynics, and outsiders
  • Research methods : through the lens of legal consciousness
  • A school director and non-discrimination law
  • Contractors and competition law
  • Front-line officials and public law
  • Marking the unremarkable
Dimensions
22 cm.
Extent
xv, 215 pages
Isbn
9781137603975
Isbn Type
(eBook)
Lccn
2018942213
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Note
GOBI Library Solutions from EBSCO
Other physical details
illustrations
System control number
(OCoLC)1013934044

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