Dutch Legal Culture, 2e

By Freek Bruinsma, Erhard Blankenburg, E. Blankenburg

The Netherlands are a small country, but they have many laws. In handling them, Dutch lawyers tend to be pragmatic: they use them to solve problems, not to create additional ones. If they do create problems, they try to find a way around them. If must be, they ignore them. Only if even that meets with resistance, they change them. Because of its non-legalistic learnings, Dutch legal culture favoured a pragmatic public administration, a mild penal climate and an informal civil justice. This book contains a journey' through selected aspects of Dutch legal culture which is presented by comparing, the Court System, the Legal Profession, Informal Justice in Civil Courts, Criminal Policy and a very Dutch legal term beleid'.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9065447660
• ISBN13: 9789065447661
• Release Date: July 1994
• Publisher: Kluwer Law International
• Length: 84 Pages
• Weight: 0.29 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.1" x 9.2"