legal culture

Japanese: legal culture(英語表記)legalculture
legal culture

...refers to the study of law through anthropological methods. Traditionally, the subject matter has been the law of so-called primitive societies, but recently there has been a trend to broaden the scope to include Western societies, and to study legal consciousness, attitudes, values, and beliefs broadly as legal culture. Similarly, there is a trend to study customary law, indigenous law, unofficial law, and other non-state laws collectively as folk law, and there is also a movement to study the assimilation and tension between state law and these folk laws as a pluralistic legal system.

*Some explanations of terms that refer to "legal culture" are listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…人類学的方法による法の研究をいう。従来はいわゆる未開社会の法を対象としてきたが,最近は対象を西欧社会にも広げ,法に関する意識,態度,価値観,信念などを広く法文化legal cultureとして研究する動向がみられる。同様に,国家法以外の慣習法,固有法,非公式法unofficial lawなどをフォーク・ローfolk lawとして一括,研究しようとする動向,さらに国家法とこれらフォーク・ローとの同化,緊張の関係を多元的法体制として研究する動きもあらわれている。…

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