Understanding Corruption Through Eugen Ehrlich’s ‘Living Law’: A Socio-Legal Study Of Informal Practices In Post-Soviet Uzbekistan

This chapter focuses on Eugen Ehrlich’s concept of “living law”, one of the key theoretical perspectives in sociology of law. The aim of this chapter is to illustrate how the contemporary issues can be understood and analyzed by using the concept of living law. Empirically, the case study of corruption in Uzbekistan is presented and analysed through the lens of the concept of living law. The chapter concludes that the concept of living law provides useful theoretical and methodological insights for the study of contemporary socio-legal issues.

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