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Legal Traditions of the World Sustainable Diversity in Law
By
H. Patrick Glenn
* Awarded the Grand Prize of the International Academy of International Law
* Offers comprehensive coverage of all major legal traditions and their contexts and incorporates a level of scholarship and analysis that surpasses all other comparative law textbooks
* Adopts a genuinely global perspective making it an invaluable resource for courses worldwide
* Provides extensive references and annotated web links at the end of each chapter to aid and encourage further research
New to this edition
* Preface outlining the practical relevance of the material
* Annotated web links at the end of each chapter to promote further research
* Discussion of archaeological challenges to historical adherence to legal traditions
* Reference to notions of relative efficiency of different legal traditions
* Coverage of the debate on the calculation of world poverty and wealth distribution
* Reference to the debate on the effect of technology on the diffusion of traditions
This prize-winning work 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 Asian 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.
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