Essay Three Approaches to Law and Culture

INTRODUCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 839 R I. THE NATIONAL CULTURE AS CONSTITUTIVE OF LAW: THE HISTORICAL SCHOOL IN GERMAN LAW . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 844 R II. LAW AS CONSTITUTIVE OF CULTURE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 848 R A. Joseph Kohler: Law as Preserving and Advancing Elite Culture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 848 R B. Law as Constitutive of Culture and Social Relations . 848 R III. THE LAW OF THE COURTS AS A DISTINCT CULTURAL SYSTEM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 856 R A. Karl Llewellyn: Law as Culture and Craft . . . . . . . . . . . 857 R B. James Boyd White: Law as Constitutive Rhetoric . . . . 861 R C. Pierre Bourdieu: Law as a Culture and Field . . . . . . . . 863 R 1. Habitus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 863 R 2. Capital . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 864 R 3. Field . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 864 R 4. The Legal Field . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 865 R D. Stanley Fish: Law as Practice in the Context of an Interpretive Community . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 865 R CONCLUSION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 867 R