Legal culture with its central element, i.e. human rights, is nowadays a prerequisite for the existence of a state governed by the rule of law. This emphasis is particularly well grounded since in the normative sphere of the modern world the significance of religious and moral norms is subsiding. Legal norms and legal institutions are in many instances substituting these norms. They are increasingly assuming the role previously held in society by religious, custom and moral norms. Tendencies towards rationality of the modern world contribute largely to such an organisation of the significance of various kinds of social norms and because the phenomenon of law is bound by rationality, its significance in the normative structure of global society is growing and, as a consequence, the importance of legal culture for people's practical behaviour and actions is being stressed. Parallel to the expansion of global societies processes of unifying the legal superstructure are underway. The uniform market demands also uniform legal regulation of the circulation of goods, capital and manpower. The transformation of several global societies into a new uniform global society also means the formation of a new uniform legal system made up of the previous numerous different legal systems. Of course, these tendencies are first expressed in the field of company law, yet such trends spread very fast to other legal areas and to the whole legal culture. The formation of 'European law' as a vital consequence and at the same time the condition for integrating and uniting European countries and/or global societies is now going on in this sense. The globalisation of law and its impacts on other social institutions are transcending the boundaries of national and local manifestations of law on the basis of human rights.
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