On Legal Consciousness, Legal Alienation and Friendship

Marc Hertogh
Professor of Socio-Legal Studies, University of Groningen

Simon Halliday
Professor of Socio-Legal Studies, University of York.

During the 1990s and early 2000s, the weekend edition of the UK newspaper, The Guardian, contained a regular feature called the ‘Saturday Debate’. It allowed two people on differing sides of an argument to exchange views on a given topic. It took the form of a series of short letters, one person to the other. This blog adopts the same format and takes as its point of departure Simon Halliday’s recent review essay ‘After Hegemony: The Varieties of Legal Consciousness Research’, which focused on Marc Hertogh’s book Nobody’s Law: Legal Consciousness and Legal Alienation in Everyday Life.  Readers can access this article for free via the SAGE e-Pub platform by clicking this link.

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