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the study of legal consciousness emerged out of a concern that
law and society scholars were asking the wrong set of questions, or not penetrating into everyday life. In so doing, their antecedents were studies of legal needs and dispute processing. As Engel suggests, those early studies contained ‘an initial exploration of positively conceived social facts or events [which] began to collapse back into an enquiry into subjectivity, meaning and cognition’.
The influential theoretical developments which enabled this transformation in scholarship were provided by the work of Foucault on power and de Certeau on everyday life.This was combined with the recognition that models of law were incapable of accounting for the individual experience of law.
As Bumiller powerfully argued:
The model of legal protection reinforces a view of law and society in which the social and political realm is distinct from, and subordinate to, the legal. This view of the primacy of the legal order creates the illusion that law is a source of power and authority disconnected from other power structures in society.
So The Law & Law Consciousness (LLC) is that kind of Law firm which help the people to make the legal consciousness very well in the society.
