TY  - BOOK
AU  - Jacek Maria Kurczewski
AU  - Malgorzata Fuszara
PY  - 2019
CY  - Berlin, Germany
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 9783631724767
TI  - How People Use the Courts
T2  - The Disputes and Courts in Poland
DO  - 10.3726/b11231
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1055123
N2  - This book analyzes how people settle disputes in and outside of Polish courts. The preference for courts against informal settlements increased with the consolidation of the democratic legal state. Still, the compromise settlement remains the cultural ideal. The authors evaluate these circumstances in their extensive study of private disputes in the courts and of different types of individual settlements. They observed that the role of power behind these choices proved to be significant as people in better social positions are more inclined to use the courts and in worse social positions more inclined to deal informally with opponents in power. The ethnic factor surveyed in other former Communist countries is also related to the relative power of the different ethnic groups. The book investigates how institutional, social and cultural factors interact in shaping the dispute settlement patterns.
KW  - Hate speech, Personality rights, Private prosecution, Informal settlement, Legal culture
LA  - English
ER  -