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This book explores the relationship between crime, law and popular culture in Europe from the sixteenth century onwards. It serves to illuminate how experiences of and attitudes to crime and the law may have corresponded or differed in different locations and contexts as well as contributing to a wider understanding of popular culture and consciousness in early modern and modern Europe.

Can there be a cultural study of EU law? The notion of legal culture is notoriously tricky. It is both omnipresent and yet seemingly ungraspable. Can we nevertheless hope to dispel the mystery of legal culture, and seize this notion as an object of study? And can it provide a method to improve our understanding of EU law?

LABOR LAW IS OFTEN REGARDED AS UNUSUALLY ACCESSIBLE TO RADICAL ANALYSIS AND CRITICISM. WHILE THE POLITICAL IMPLICATIONS OF THE RISE OF POMISSORY ESTOPPEL DOCTRINE OR COMPARATIVE NEGLIGENCE MAY SEEM OPAQUE, LABOR CASES FREQUENTLY EVIDENCE QUITE TRANSPARENT STRUGGLES OVER POWER IN THE WORKPLACE. THE FACT THAT POLITICAL ISSUES ARE SO CLOSE TO THE SURFACE IN LABOR LAW IS EXAMINED IN THIS ARTICLE.