LAW 4000 Lecture 3: Law on the books_lecture 3
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The quality or state of being in accordance with the law. Commonplace law(ewick and silbey): the law is both familiar and strange as we naturally abide from it but it can change how we live drastically. When we find ourselves in the legal domain, we find ourselves subject to a mighty power that can make the normal feel strange. The law also seems to have a prominent cultural presence, occupying a good part of our nations popular media, providing a useful material for both the news and entertainment. Legality is an emergent feature of social relations rather than an external apparatus acting upon social life. Legality is embedded in and emerges out of daily activities. The commonplace operation of law in daily life makes us all legal agents insofar as we actively make law, even when no formal agent is involved.
