Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2006. / Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Study based on data derived from a sampling of 189 large U.S. law firms. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 90-101). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of North Texas, Aug., 2009. / Title from title page display. Includes bibliographical references.

The presented PhD. thesis deals with effective strategies of forming legal consciousness of upper-secondary school students, and with methods that can be used for developing it. So far, legal scholars have paid only insufficient attention to this topic, even though many law experts have repeatedly pointed out its importance. Moreover, they stress the fact that a more detailed understanding of legal consciousness of citizens and of ways of influencing it can help us better understand how law works within the society. The thesis opens with the theoretical part, which defines the concept of legal consciousness, describes its level captured by the available empirical research and identifies effective strategies, which possess the potential to cultivate legal consciousness of the youth. In the following practical part, the author seeks to verify effectiveness of these strategies by means of student questionnaires, interviews with teachers and observations of their lessons. The theoretical part firstly introduces legal consciousness as the basic concept of the whole thesis. The first chapter presents the understanding of legal consciousness as one of the key terms of every law because it connects the world of law in books with the world of law actually experienced by people on day to day basis. Legal...

Le but de cette recherche est d'évaluer la conscience et la connaissance des lois a tous les niveaux scolaires soit: primaire, secondaire, collegial, universitaire et education permanente, afin de mettre sur pied un enseignement cumulatif du droit et de préparer un matériel pédagogique adapté au développement de l'étudiant. We hope to evaluate consciousness and knowledge of the law at all educational levels: elementary, secondary, collegial and adult extension programs. Our aim is to introduce a cumulative program for the teaching of law and to prepare pedagogical material adapted to students at various levels of development

Diploma thesis aims to present different conceptions of legal consciousness, to highlight their historical and socio-cultural contexts and to outline their possible progress in selected directions. First chapter presents several textbook definitions of legal consciousness, including a comparison of "European" and "American" conceptions. Chapter 2 introduces and compares other expressions usually used in connection with legal consciousness - sometimes as synonyms, sometimes emphasizing some of its components or specific author's approach. Chapter 3 then accentuates historical dimension of legal consciousness, with examples of its ideological conceptions "with attributes" (socialist, revolutionary, popular legal consciousness). These three chapters constitute descriptive, overviewing part; possible synthesis is then concluded in Chapter 4. At first, it identifies three "inner" dimensions which arise from presented conceptual field and which need to be clarified if we want to talk about legal consciousness with sufficient precision: which component we focus on, which part of law and whose legal consciousness are concerned. After that we distinguish three kinds of discourse, that is, how the legal consciousness is talked about: lawyers, sociologists and educators or "users of law" approach it with different...