Lucia Zedner, In Pursuit of the Vernacular: Comparing Law and Order Discourse in Britain and Germany

DOI10.1177/096466399500400412
Date01 December 1995
Published date01 December 1995
Subject MatterArticles
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The encounter with other legal systems stemming from, among other things, the
globalization of economy and European integration, led to more than just the renouncing
of state sovereignty or the making of legislative adjustments; it is less a matter of positive
law than of legal culture. Along with American law, American lawyers introduce new
ways of working, counselling, defending, and the like. It is now up to us to find the
objective and trustworthy indicators without which we could never achieve satisfying
intellectual work. Starting from what appears to be a diversified variety of fields such as
film, procedure and administrative and political practices, I propose to identify some
cultural markers of French legal life. These markers will be divided into the following
themes: a paradoxical way of relating to the rules on the one hand, and the internalization
of conflicts on the other.
TONY PROSSER, The State, Constitutions and Implementing Economic Policy: Privatiz-
ation and
Regulation in the UK, France and the USA
This contribution draws on previous studies of privatization in the UK
and France and of
regulation in the UK and the USA to assess the effects of constitutional cultures on
economic policy making. It is suggested that the constitutional arrangements of the UK
are highly peculiar in that they have a weak concept of the state and instead concentrate on
personalised modes of governance and...

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