Laypeople in Law

1. Laypeople in Law: Moving from a Blind Spot in Socio-Legal Studies Towards a Comprehensive Field of Research

Part I. Distinctions: On Blurring Boundaries Between Laypeople and Legal Experts

2. Ebb and Flow: Framing and Sidestepping in Relationships Between Laypeople and Legal Intermediaries

3. Laypeople's Attitudes Towards and Experiences With the Law

Part II. Contributions: On Laypeople in Law-Making, Norm Interpretation, and Judicial Formalisation

4. Creating Social Existence Through Law: Laypeople's Successful Struggle for a Certificate of Miscarriage

5. Ecocide and the Co-Production of International Environmental Norms Through Laypeople

Part III. Appropriations: On the Mimesis of Judicial Forms

6. Mobilising International Law, Subverting the Judicial Form: The 1967 Russell Tribunal as an Experiment in Utopian Justice

7. Russell Tribunal II on Repression in Brazil, Chile, and Latin America (1974-1976): The Success and Limits of Transnational Legal Mobilisation

Part IV. Structurations: On Law as a Shaping Force

8. Legal Consciousness Without Legal Culture?: A Comment on Ewick and Silbey's The Common Place of Law

9. Laypersons' Judgments on Fictive Cases: Public Perceptions of Gender-Based Violence in France and Germany

10. Beyond the Law?: Laypeople in Law, Civil Disobedience, and Conceptions of Violence