Laypeople in Law: Moving from a Blind Spot in Socio-Legal Studies Towards a Comprehensive Field of Research
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Laypeople in Law: Socio-Legal Perspectives on Non-Professionals. ed. / Andrea Kretschmann; Guillaume Mouralis; Ulrike Zeigermann. Taylor and Francis Inc., 2024. p. 1-19.
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TY - CHAP
T1 - Laypeople in Law
T2 - Moving from a Blind Spot in Socio-Legal Studies Towards a Comprehensive Field of Research
AU - Kretschmann, Andrea
AU - Mouralis, Guillaume
AU - Zeigermann, Ulrike
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2024 selection and editorial matter, Andrea Kretschmann, Guillaume Mouralis and Ulrike Zeigermann; individual chapters, the contributors.
PY - 2024/1/1
Y1 - 2024/1/1
N2 - While laypeople hold an important role in law, socio-legal scholars mainly focus on legal professionals and their activities in legal institutions, including parliaments, courts, tribunals, and international organizations. In this chapter, it is argued that a more systematic approach to contemporary research on laypeople in law is needed. We propose a research agenda that first engages with the question of how to distinguish laypeople from legal experts and second approaches a systematic account of the extent to which laypeople indirectly or directly contribute to law-making, judicial interpretation, and shifting legal practice. Finally, such an agenda addresses the question of how laypeople themselves are shaped by their legal context, which is highly dependent on their social, political, and historical environment.
AB - While laypeople hold an important role in law, socio-legal scholars mainly focus on legal professionals and their activities in legal institutions, including parliaments, courts, tribunals, and international organizations. In this chapter, it is argued that a more systematic approach to contemporary research on laypeople in law is needed. We propose a research agenda that first engages with the question of how to distinguish laypeople from legal experts and second approaches a systematic account of the extent to which laypeople indirectly or directly contribute to law-making, judicial interpretation, and shifting legal practice. Finally, such an agenda addresses the question of how laypeople themselves are shaped by their legal context, which is highly dependent on their social, political, and historical environment.
KW - Law
KW - Sociology
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=105000600498&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.4324/9781003134220-1
DO - 10.4324/9781003134220-1
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:105000600498
SN - 9780367680978
SP - 1
EP - 19
BT - Laypeople in Law
A2 - Kretschmann, Andrea
A2 - Mouralis, Guillaume
A2 - Zeigermann, Ulrike
PB - Taylor and Francis Inc.
ER -