ABSTRACT
Legal culture is the source of law - its norms create the legal norms; and it is what determines the impact of legal norms on society. (Friedman, 1994: 118)
Lawrence Friedman (1994) claims that studies of comparative legal culture are both in principle and in practice extremely difficult to carry out but also that data about legal culture will have to be more and more cross-cultural and to transcend boundaries in order to explore issues of sameness and difference among the various legal cultures. He underlines six traits as especially characteristic of legal systems in the 1990s. The first of these and the one I am going to refer to here is that the legal systems, like their societies, are in process of rapid change.
