Legal Traditions of the World: Sustainable Diversity of Law - Softcover

Glenn, H. Patrick

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0198765754 ISBN 13: 9780198765752

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2000

Synopsis

Written in a clear and accessible style, this new text provides a broader concept of comparative law, placing national laws in the wider context of legal traditions. All major legal traditions of the world are covered. The scope and clarity of this work will make it essential reading for students and practitioners of transnational law alike. In 1998 it won the Grand Prize of the International Academy of Comparative Law.

About this title

About the Author:

H. Patrick Glenn is Peter M. Laing Professor of Law at McGill University, Montreal, and a former Director of the McGill Institute of Comparative Law. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and a Member of the International Academy of Comparative Law.

Review:

"The book gives an invaluable background for more specific areas of law both for academics and students", Stanislaw Biernat, Jagellonian University

"The book is a fine introduction to the different legal traditions of the world, well-written and nicely structured", Dr RJC Munday, Cambridge University

Patrick Glenn's Legal Traditions of the World is one of the very best books that I have read on comparative law. Its impact on the teaching of the subject and the practice of comparative law methodology should be considerable, perhaps even profound. It is the book that needed to be written to
help contemporary and emerging comparatists break free of the dry taxonomy used in some traditionalist approaches to comparative legal analysis and discussion. s

In its manuscript form, the volume was awarded the Grand Prize of the International Academy of Comparative Law in August 1998.. the content of this book clearly warrants that distinguished accolade. It will become a significant.. ground- breaking work in the field of comparative law.
comparative legal analysis and discussion. s

"This book is set up to make it accessible and interesting to a variety of academic fields", M. Coulthard, May 2001

This is an exceptional and eminently readable book. Combining a historically accurate analysis with a distinctly contemporary sensibility, Glenn invokes not only jurisprudential concepts as he explains different legal traditions, but religious and sociological ideas as well. One of the most
striking aspects of the book is that, although it as clearly written with students and non-specialists in mind, it will also appeal to experienced comparativists. S. I. Strong, The Cambridge Law Journal

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0198765754
• ISBN 13: 9780198765752
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 400