Comparative Analysis of Social and Legal Change

社会和法律变革的比较分析

• 批准号: 8911816
• 负责人: Marjorie Zatz
• 金额: $ 5.98万
• 依托单位: Arizona State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 1989
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1989-07-15 至 1991-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=8911816&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Comparative; Analysis; Social; Legal; Change

Important dimensions in the relationship between social and legal change include the form of law, its content, and the process whereby change occurs within the legal arena. One of the first decisions of a newly established government is the content of law. This is determined by the beliefs held by the political leadership and includes substantive concerns that they think can be addressed within the legal order. A second and related decision is what form the legal order will take. The essence of this decision is the mix of formalism and informalism that characterizes the law. Research on legal and social change has been hindered by a lack of conceptual clarity regarding informalism and a failure to locate changes in the form and content of law in the broader context of structural and historical influences on the society. This project examines these dimensions through an analysis of specific changes in the content of law, the mix of formalism and informalism of law, and the relationship between this mix and the content of law in Latin American socialist legal orders. Cuba and Nicaragua, two socialist regimes that have taken different approaches to legal order and which have undergone marked changes in their political-economic structures, are the natural settings for the research. Central to the analysis is an understanding of the historical and structural factors that shape particular aspects of legal institutions. The methodology is both comparative and historical. Documentary data and in-depth interviews with key actors will be used deductively and inductively by testing the theoretical framework in one site and further refining the model as new information emerges from the comparison site. This research bridges the gap between structural analyses of lawmaking and research on the dialectical relationship between informal and formal justice, thus enhancing our understanding of the relationship between legal and social change. The role of legal professionals, the strategy of legal borrowings from other countries, and the specifics of Cuban and Nicaraguan initiatives have important policy implications as well. Finally, the study will inform research on the use of informal justice options in the U.S. by enhancing our understanding of the tension between formalism and informalism in the legal arena.

社会与法律的之间关系的重要方面 法律的变化包括法律的形式、法律的内容和法律的过程 由此在法律的竞技场内发生变化。 第一 一个新成立的政府的决定是内容， 依法 这是由政治家的信念所决定的。 领导力，包括他们认为可以 在法律的秩序内解决。 第二和相关 决定是指法律的秩序将采取何种形式。 的本质 这个决定是形式主义和非形式主义的结合， 这是法律的特征。 对法律的和社会变革的研究 由于缺乏概念上的明确性， 形式主义和未能找到变化的形式， 法律内容在更广泛的结构和 对社会的历史影响。 本项目通过对以下方面的分析来研究这些方面： 法律内容的具体变化，形式主义和 法律的非形式主义，以及这种混合与 拉丁美洲社会主义法律的秩序中的法律内容。 古巴 和尼加拉瓜这两个社会主义政权 接近法律的秩序，并经历了显着 政治经济结构的变化是自然的， 研究的设置。 分析的核心是 了解形成这种现象的历史和结构因素 法律的制度的特殊方面。 该方法被 无论是比较的还是历史的。 文件数据和深入 与主要演员的访谈将被用于演绎， 通过在一个地点测试理论框架， 随着新信息的出现， 比较网站 这项研究弥合了结构分析之间的差距， 立法与研究的辩证关系 非正式和正式司法，从而加强我们对 法律的与社会变迁的关系。 的作用 法律的专业人士，法律的借鉴策略 以及古巴和古巴倡议的具体内容 也有重要的政策含义。 最后，研究 将为关于使用非正式司法选择的研究提供信息， 通过加强我们对美国与美国之间紧张关系的理解， 法律的竞技场的形式主义和非形式主义。