Handbook on Legal Cultures

Sören Koch is a full professor at the Faculty of Law in Bergen, Norway since 2015. His main fields of research are legal history and comparative law. As a German scholar working and teaching in Norway his interests have naturally turned towards comparative legal studies. In several publications he focused especially on aspects of legal methodology and mentalities as well as questions related to contract and tort law. He is the leader of the research group for Legal Culture, Legal History and Comparative Law in Bergen. He is a member of the scientific board of the Norwegian Association of Comparative Law, associated with BACL, and is a national rapporteur for Norway of IACL.
Marius Mikkel Kjølstad is a PhD Candidate at the Faculty of Law in Bergen, Norway, since 2020. He is writing his doctoral thesis within the field of legal history. He holds both a master degree in law from the University of Bergen and an LL.M. degree in legal theory from Goethe University Frankfurt.

Marius Mikkel Kjølstad and Sören Koch, Introduction.- Jørn Øyrehagen Sunde, Legal Culture - Ideas of and Expectations to Law made Operational by Institutional(-like) Practices.- Tina Soliman Hunter, An Introduction to Australian Legal Culture.- Konrad Lachmayer and Niklas Sonntag, An Introduction to Austrian Legal Culture.- Bruno Debaenst, An Introduction to Belgian Legal Culture.- Lana Bubalo, An Introduction to the Legal Cultures of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and Serbia (Western Balkan).- JIANG Dong, An Introduction to Chinese Legal Culture.- Catalina Vallejo Piedrahíta, Tania Luna Blanco and Olga Velásquez Ocampo, An Introduction to Colombian Legal Culture.- Niels Graaf, An Introduction to Dutch Legal Culture.- Christian N.K. Franklin, A Legal Cultural "Take" on the Legal System of England & Wales.- Merike Ristikivi, Andreas Kangur, Irene Kull, Katre Luhamaa, Marin Sedman , Hesi Siimets-Gross and Age Värv, An Introduction to Estonian Legal Culture.- Eyob Awash Gebremariam andMulu Beyene Kidanemariam, An Introduction to Ethiopian Legal Culture.- Johann Ruben Leiss, An Introduction to EU Legal Culture.- Anna Nylund, An Introduction to Finnish Legal Culture.- Sunniva Cristina Bragdø-Ellenes and Iris Nguyên Duy, An Introduction to French Legal Culture.- Sören Koch, An Introduction to German Legal Culture.- Daniel Haitas, An Introduction to Hungarian Legal Culture.- Esmeralda Colombo and Lars Kvestad, An Introduction to Italian Legal Culture.- Monica Naime and Juan Luis Cervantes, An Introduction to Mexican Legal Culture.- Marius Mikkel Kjølstad, Sören Koch and Jørn Øyrehagen Sunde, An Introduction to Norwegian Legal Culture.- Anna Klimaszewska, Anna Machnikowska and Sören Koch, An Introduction to Polish Legal Culture.- Andrew R C Simpson, An Introduction to Scottish Legal Culture.- José María de Dios Marcer and José Cañabate Pérez, An Introduction to Spanish Legal Culture.- Axel Jonsson, An Introduction to Swedish Legal Culture.- Lloyd T. Wilson, Jr., A View of the Legal Culture of the United States of America.- Yuliya Chernykh, An Introduction to Ukrainian Legal Culture.