TY - GEN N2 - Cooperation across borders requires both knowledge of and understanding of different cultures. This is especially true when it comes to the law. This handbook is the first to comprehensively present selected legal cultures based on a very specific set of structural elements which can be found in all such cultures. Legal cultures are a product of and impacted by certain fundamental and commonly shared ideas on and expectations of the law. In all modern societies these ideas are to a certain degree institutionalized or at least embedded in institutionalized practices. These practices determine the way lawyers are educated and apply the law, how they engage with the ongoing internationalization of law and what kind of values they adhere to. Looking at these elements separately enables the reader to identify similarities and differences and to explain them contextually. Understanding these general features of legal cultures can help avoid misunderstandings or misinterpretations of foreign law and its application. Accordingly, this handbook is a necessary starting point for all kinds of legal comparative studies conducted by academics, students, judges and other legal practitioners. DO - 10.1007/978-3-031-27745-0 DO - doi AB - Cooperation across borders requires both knowledge of and understanding of different cultures. This is especially true when it comes to the law. This handbook is the first to comprehensively present selected legal cultures based on a very specific set of structural elements which can be found in all such cultures. Legal cultures are a product of and impacted by certain fundamental and commonly shared ideas on and expectations of the law. In all modern societies these ideas are to a certain degree institutionalized or at least embedded in institutionalized practices. These practices determine the way lawyers are educated and apply the law, how they engage with the ongoing internationalization of law and what kind of values they adhere to. Looking at these elements separately enables the reader to identify similarities and differences and to explain them contextually. Understanding these general features of legal cultures can help avoid misunderstandings or misinterpretations of foreign law and its application. Accordingly, this handbook is a necessary starting point for all kinds of legal comparative studies conducted by academics, students, judges and other legal practitioners. T1 - Handbook on legal cultures :a selection of the world's legal cultures / DA - 2023. CY - Cham : AU - Koch, Sören. AU - Kjølstad, Marius Mikkel. CN - K487.C8 PB - Springer, PP - Cham : PY - 2023. N1 - Description based upon print version of record. N1 - 7.5 Foreign Legal Sources and Comparative Law in the Austrian Legal System ID - 1468470 KW - Culture and law KW - Sociological jurisprudence. SN - 9783031277450 SN - 3031277457 TI - Handbook on legal cultures :a selection of the world's legal cultures / LK - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-3-031-27745-0 UR - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-3-031-27745-0 ER -