ABSTRACT
One of the most recent attempts to summarize the meanings ascribed to the term internal legal culture,l putting aside those which make it coincide with the concepts of legal dogmatics or jurisprudence, distinguishes three main categories: (1) the patterns of reasoning employed by jurists to go from abstract normative premises to specific or individual legal consequences using standard techniques of formulation and justification of the decisions; (2) the specialized lexicon from which they draw their ideas, and (3) the values, ideologies, patterns of reasoning and the politics of law which contribute to the maintenance and growth of the class of the jurists as a particular professional group.
