04119nam a22005535i 4500 978-3-031-69055-6 DE-He213 20251030113042.0 cr nn 008mamaa 240914s2024 sz | s |||| 0|eng d 9783031690556 978-3-031-69055-6 10.1007/978-3-031-69055-6 doi K201-487 K140-165 LAB bicssc LAW000000 bisacsh LAB thema Graver, Hans Petter. author. (orcid)0000-0001-6032-0071 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6032-0071 aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 84288 Democracy and Lawlessness [electronic resource] : The Penitentiary Laws and Civil Disobedience in Norway 1928-1931 / by Hans Petter Graver. 1st ed. 2024. Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Springer, 2024. VII, 163 p. online resource. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Grandfather -- The years of great struggle -- The creation of the Penitentiary Law -- Challenging the Arbitration Act:The Construction Workers' Dispute -- Criminal law against industrial action -- The battle for the lay judges -- Civil disobedience and the legitimacy of the actions -- All’s well that ends well -- Epilogue. The book addresses efforts to politically influence and curb the judicial system, by telling the story of the enactment of controversial laws in Norway in 1927. It draws parallels to current challenges to the autonomy of the legal order, both in countries where populist forces seek control over the courts, and in other countries where increasing levels of conflict, such as around the climate crisis and the pandemic, challenge the rule of law. In 1927 the Norwegian Parliament enacted three laws that changes the rules of the game in the relation between Labor and Capital. The law was weaponized in benefit of the employers. By this, the legislature departed from the classic ideal of equality before the law and law’s autonomy as a neutral order. The new laws were called the penitentiary laws. The demonstrations against one of the laws, the Arbitration Act in 1928 were the largest manifestation of civil disobedience in Norwegian history. They provoked a level of lawlessness that has not been matched, with exception of the situation during the German occupation 1940-1945. The book analyses the events with the aid of the theory of civil disobedience in liberal democracies put forward by the philosopher John Rawls and the theory of the legal complex developed by the socio-legal scholars Terence Halliday, Lucien Karpic, and Malcolm Feeley. This book tells the story of the Penitentiary Laws, how the laws came into being, how they were received and resisted, and how they were defeated through civil disobedience and with the support of a legal complex which reached far into the legal system. The outcome of the conflict may be one of the factors that explain the high level of trust that the legal institutions enjoy in present day Norway. Law Philosophy. 67596 Law History. 67597 Law and the social sciences. 66975 Political science. 58714 Theories of Law, Philosophy of Law, Legal History. 67600 Socio-Legal Studies. 66980 Legal History. 72823 Political Theory. 70609 SpringerLink (Online service) Springer Nature eBook Printed edition: 9783031690549 Printed edition: 9783031690563 Printed edition: 9783031690570 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-69055-6 ZDB-2-LCR ZDB-2-SXLC 63377 63377