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The author investigates the following questions: 1. What are the differences between the legal culture of non-Western societies and that of the West? As a result of modernization, the most modern of legal systems in non-Western societies today have a very great deal in common with those of the West. However, at the same time, unofficial law in varied forms has also survived as a part of the social...