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The Social Role of Legal Theory : Kawashima's Theory in Japan, the United States and China
With cultural translation theory ,this paper argues that vagueness of Kawashima's theory has consequence for the salience and scope of legal problem, by focusing on the link between legal professional, media literacy and local culture.
A case study of Communicational Impact in Kawashima's Legal consciousness theory is analyzed in two part: the first, to compare the form of Kawashima's academic work and his discourse on public ,with a paperback book called Nihonjin no ho ishiki (The Legal consciousness of the Japanese), shows that legal profession and layman culture has different types of legal information. The second is to confirm the possibility of comparative understanding of legal theory,by following Kawashima's Legal consciousness debate in Japanese,American, Chinese legal review from 1967 to present.