Divided into three parts, this book examines the relationship between law and culture from various perspectives, both theoretical and empirical. Part I outlines the framework for further considerations and includes new, innovative conceptualizations of two ideas that are essential to the topic of law and culture: legal culture and customary law. Both of these reappear later in the more empirically oriented chapters of Parts II and III. Part II includes chapters on the relationships between law, customs, and culture, drawing heavily on the tradition and achievements of the anthropology of law and touching on important problems of multiculturalism, legal pluralism, and cultural defense. It focuses on the more intangible meaning of culture, while Part III addresses its more material, tangible aspects and the issue of cultural production, as well as its intersection with law.

Presents original reconceptualizations of legal culture and customary law Offers diverse case studies, strongly backed by empirical methods, that concern the relationships between law & culture Introduces the basic fields of current scholarship on law and culture

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Mateusz Stepien is Professor of Sociology of Law in the Faculty on Law and Administration at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow. His research interests focus on exploring the cultural dimension of law. He published papers on Chinese constitutionalism, Confucianism, images in judicial opinions, representative bureaucracy. He is currently working on the subject of judicial empathy and legal placebo. Jan Bazyli Klakla is a graduate of law, sociology and comparative culture studies at the Jagiellonian University and postgraduate studies in international migrations at the University of Warsaw. He is preparing two doctoral dissertations - in law at the Department of Sociology of Law of the Jagiellonian University and in sociology at the Institute of Sociology of the Jagiellonian University.

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Part I Law and Culture Theorizations: Introduction. Drawing On the Legacy of Founding Fathers by Mateusz Stpie, Jan Bazyli Klakla.- Exploring New Avenues for Studying the Legal Culture: Drawing on Homi Bhabha's Theorization of culture by Mateusz Stpie.- Customary Law is Like an Onion: A Multilayered Approach to Customary Law and Its Status in the Contemporary World by Jan Bazyli Klakla.- Part II Law, Custom and Culture: Indian Love Jihad Goes to Court by Anna Drwal.- Palestinian Culture Through a Legal Lens: A Case Study of Customary Legal Proceedings After a Homicide in Hebron by Ewa Górska.- 'In This Case, Can There Be No Talk About Such a Justification Through Circumstances?' A Case Study of the Invocation of Cultural Defence Outside the Common Law by Joanna Ptak-Chmiel.- Part III Law and Cultural Production: Copyright and Culture: The Case of Poland by Ewa Radomska.- The Procedural Justice in South Korean Popular Culture. An Analysis of Court Hearings Using the Example of the K-Drama Your Honor by Katarzyna Ruyczka .- Does Visual Culture Pose a Threat to Law? by Magdalena Wojdala .