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Record Nr.

UNINA9910520003403321

Titolo

The limits of the legal complex : Nordic lawyers and political liberalism / edited by Malcolm Feeley,  Malcolm Langford

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2021

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (X, 280 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

349.48

Soggetti

Law - Scandinavia

Law - Scandinavia - History

Lawyers - Scandinavia

Liberalism - Scandinavia

Scandinavia Politics and government

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.