Laypeople in law : socio-legal perspectives on non-professionals / edited by Andrea Kretschmann, Guillaume Mouralis, and Ulrike Zeigermann.

Laypeople in law : moving from a blind spot in socio-legal studies towards a comprehensive field of research / Ulrike Zeigermann, Guillaume Mouralis, Andrea Kretschmann -- Laypeople's attitudes towards and experiences with the law / Stefan Machura -- Ebb and flow : framing and sidestepping in relationships between laypeople and legal intermediaries / Jérôme Pélisse -- Creating social existence through law : laypeople's successful struggle for a certificate of miscarriage / Julia Böcker -- Ecocide and the co-production of international environmental norms through laypeople / Ulrike Zeigermann -- Mobilising international law, subverting the judicial form : the 1967 Russell Tribunal as an experiment in Utopian justice / Guillaume Mouralis -- The success and limits of transnational legal mobilisation / Caroline Moine -- Legal consciousness without legal culture? a comment on Ewick and Silbey's the common place of law / Axel Pohn-Weidinger and Julia Dahlvik -- Laypersons' judgments on fictive cases : public perceptions of gender-based violence in France and Germany / Benedicte Laumond -- Beyond the law? laypeople in law, civil disobedience, and conceptions of violence / Aldo Legnaro.

"This book contributes to a better understanding of the role laypeople hold in the social functioning of law. It adopts the scholarly insight that the law is unthinkable without an everyday legal understanding of the law pursued by laypeople. It engages with the assumption that not only the law's existence but also its development is shaped by the layperson's affirmations, oppositions, ignorance, or negations of the law. This volume thus aims to fill a void in socio-legal studies. Whereas many socio-legal theories tend to conceptualize the law through legal experts' actions, institutions, procedures, and codifications, it argues that such a viewpoint underestimates the role of laypeople in the law's processing and advocates for a strengthened conceptual place in socio-legal theory. This book will appeal to sociolegal scholars and sociologists (of law), as well as legal practitioners and laypersons themselves"-- Provided by publisher.