Law, Legal Culture and Legal Tradition
Or the Foundational Concepts of Comparative Historical Investigations
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.55019/plr.2026.1.67-99Keywords:
impossibility of anything “internal” and “external” in law, word/conceptuality, culture as the fulfilment of law, comparative legal cultures, “extra culturam nihil datur”Abstract
Historically, the word ʻlegal cultureʼ was used to describe the environment of law, then served as a sociological exploration of one of the components of law, more recently as an indicator, and finally as an ideal type. In law, separating any domain “external” from anything “internal” is excluded from the beginning. Legal culture substantiates any legal phenomena along with the specific way of approaching to – whilst thinking and arguing in – them. Within this notional sphere, ʻlegal traditionʼ is a species of legal culture in which the past is considered as having some kind of binding or justifying force. Or, ʻlegal cultureʼ is neither a mere environmental element or a surplus added to law, but an ontic part of the law. In consequence, not even the genuine meaning of law can be explained from within, but from the contextualising positions of its underlying culture only, for “extra culturam nihil datur”.
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