Law and Informal Practices

This book examines the functions and effectiveness of law in the countries of the former Soviet Union. The emphasis is on the interplay between law, social norms, human values and informal practices in particular. The book deepens our understanding both of how law works in the societies under consideration, and of the post-communist transition as whole.

Denis J. Galligan is Professor of Socio-Legal Studies and Director of the Centre for Socio- Legal Studies, University of Oxford. He was previously Professor of Law at the University of Southampton and the Univerity of Sydney. Marina Kurkchiyan is Socio-Legal Research Fellow, Wolfson College, University of Oxford. She was previously North Fellow at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies and Fellow of Keble College, Oxford, Visiting Fellow, New Hall, Cambridge, Fulbright Scholar, Centre for Russian and East European Studies, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, Charter Fellow in the Humanities and Social Sciences, Wolfson College, Oxford, and Lecturer, then Senior Lecturer, in Sociology, Yerevan State University.