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The limits of the legal complex : Nordic lawyers and political liberalism edited by Malcolm Feeley, Malcolm Langford
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Law--Scandinavia.
- Law.
- Law--Scandinavia--History.
- Lawyers--Scandinavia.
- Lawyers.
- Liberalism--Scandinavia.
- Liberalism.
- Scandinavia--Politics and government.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (X, 280 pages) illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford Oxford University Press 2021
- Summary:
- Spanning two centuries and five Nordic countries, this book questions the view that political lawyers are required for the development of a liberal political regime. It combines cross-disciplinary theory and careful empirical case studies by country experts whose regional insights are brought to bear on wider global contexts.
- Contents:
- Introduction / Malcolm Feeley and Malcolm Langford. Nordic exceptionalism and the legal complex / Malcolm Feeley and Malcolm Langford. The legal complex in struggles for political liberalism in Sweden / Johan Karlsson Schaffer. Denmark : between the law state and the welfare state / Mikael Rask Madsen. Norwegian lawyers and political mobilization 1623-2015 / Malcolm Langford. The legal complex : Denmark and Norway under German occupation 1940-1945 / Hans Petter Graver. Finland : lawyers in and out of the shadows of political liberalism / Esa Konttinen. Iceland : lawyers, politics, and liberalism / Ragnhildur Helgadóttir. Revisiting the theory of the legal complex / Malcolm Langford.
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