Collaborative Research Network 39 brings together scholars who study approaches to legality: how people understand and think about different aspects of law and legal situations, how legality structures social life, and the consequences of people's understandings about the law for individual and organizational action. These understandings may be held and deployed by individuals, they may inform collective understandings of what is possible, and they may permeate and be produced through organizations and institutions.
We are interested in everyday legality in routine situations, exceptional moments, and both usual and unusual times. Everyday legality is the study of how people shape and explain their behavior as influenced by law – whether they seek to use, evade, or ignore it in the circumstances they face.
CRN 39 is a home for researchers interested in a broad array of sociolegal topics, including access to civil justice, legal consciousness, legal cynicism, criminal justice, legal pluralism, rights consciousness, and other investigations of how law and legality manifest in and structure everyday contexts. We are particularly interested in finding ways to forge intellectual connections across disciplines and research methodologies. Our goal is to create new conversations about the role of legality in everyday life.
We are interested in everyday legality in routine situations, exceptional moments, and both usual and unusual times. Everyday legality is the study of how people shape and explain their behavior as influenced by law – whether they seek to use, evade, or ignore it in the circumstances they face.
CRN 39 is a home for researchers interested in a broad array of sociolegal topics, including access to civil justice, legal consciousness, legal cynicism, criminal justice, legal pluralism, rights consciousness, and other investigations of how law and legality manifest in and structure everyday contexts. We are particularly interested in finding ways to forge intellectual connections across disciplines and research methodologies. Our goal is to create new conversations about the role of legality in everyday life.