It adopts the scholarly insight that the law is unthinkable without an everyday legal understanding of the law pursued by laypeople. It engages with the assumption that not only the law’s existence but also its development is shaped by the layperson’s affirmations, oppositions, ignorance, or negations of the law. This volume thus aims to fill a void in socio-legal studies. Whereas many sociolegal theories tend to conceptualize the law through legal experts’ actions, institutions, procedures, and codifications, it argues that such a viewpoint underestimates the role of laypeople in the law’s processing and advocates for a strengthened conceptual place in socio-legal theory.

This book will appeal to socio-legal scholars and sociologists (of law), as well as to legal practitioners and laypersons themselves.

About the Author

Andrea Kretschmann is Professor of Cultural Sociology and Dean at the School of Culture & Society at Leuphana University, Germany. She is also Associate Researcher at the Centre Marc Bloch in Berlin, Germany.

Guillaume Mouralis is Research Professor (directeur de recherche) in History and Sociology at the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), France. He is member of the Centre europ�en de sociologie et de science politique (CESSP) at the Universit� Paris 1, Panth�on-Sorbonne. He is also Associate Researcher at the Centre Marc Bloch in Berlin, Germany.

Ulrike Zeigermann is Assistant Professor of Social Science Sustainability Studies at the University of W�rzburg, Germany. She is also Associate Researcher at the Centre Marc Bloch in Berlin, Germany.

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