Legal Traditions of the World: Sustainable Diversity in LawOxford University Press, 2010 - 418 pagine Legal Traditions of the World is a prize-winning work that offers a major new means of conceptualizing law and legal relations across the world. National laws are placed in the broader context of major legal traditions, those of chthonic (or indigenous) law, talmudic law, civil law, islamic law, common law, hindu law and confucian law. Each tradition is examined in terms of its institutions and substantive law, its founding concepts and methods, its attitude towards the concept of change and its teaching on relations with other traditions and peoples. Legal traditions are explained in terms of multivalent and non-conflictual forms of logic and thought. This book will be invaluable to law students and lawyers engaged in comparative or transnational work, historians, social scientists, and all those interested in the legal traditions that underpin the world's major societies. |
Sommario
1 A THEORY OF TRADITION? THE CHANGING PRESENCE OF THE PAST | 1 |
IDENTITY PERSUASION AND SURVIVAL | 33 |
TO RECYCLE THE WORLD | 61 |
THE PERFECT AUTHOR | 99 |
THE CENTRALITY OF THE PERSON | 133 |
THE LAW OF A LATER REVELATION | 181 |
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