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How Legal Intermediaries Facilitate or Inhibit Social Change

Year: 2019

Type: book-chapter

Abstract: This article explores how legal intermediaries facilitate or inhibit social change. We suggest the increasing complexity and ambiguity of legal rules coupled with the shift from government to governance provide legal intermediaries greater opportunities to influence law and social change. Drawing from new institutional sociology, we suggest rule-intermediaries shape legal and social change, with varying degrees of success, in two ways: (1) law is filtered through non-legal logics emanating from various organizational fields and (2) law is professionalized by non-legal professionals. We draw from case studies in the United States and France to show how intermediaries facilitate or inhibit social change.

Source: Emerald Group Publishing Limited eBooks

DOI: 10.1108/s1059-433720190000079007

Authors: Shauhin Talesh, Jérôme Pélisse

Institutions: University of California, Irvine, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris, Centre de Sociologie des Organisations

Language: English

Topic: Management and Organizational Studies

Subfield: Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

Field: Business, Management and Accounting

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Peace, justice, and strong institutions

Open Access status: green

Funder: Agence Nationale de la Recherche