LEGAL CENTRALISM

By SovConn | September 15, 2013

legal centralism.The theory suggesting that state-constructed legal entities form the center of legal life and control lesser normative systems (such as the family or business networks) that define appropriate behavior and social relationships. — Also termed legal centrism; legocentrism (lee-goh-sen-triz-<<schwa>>m).

[Blacks Law 8th]

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