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 title is suitable for both undergraduates and postgraduates in comparative law courses worldwide. It may also be of interest to those studying legal history, legal philosophy, international development, international human rights, and international business.
Features
· Was awarded the Grand Prize of the International Academy of International Law.
· Offers comprehensive coverage of all major legal traditions and their contexts.
· 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.
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About the Author:
H. Patrick Glenn is the Peter M. Laing Professor of Law, Faculty of Law and Institute of Comparative Law, McGill University.
Review:
`Review from previous edition the book that needed to be written'
American Journal of Comparative Law
`an effective antidote to the class of civilizations'
Recht und Verfassung Ubersee
`Illuminating and ground breaking work'
Stellenbosch Law Review
`Glenn has succeeded magnificently'
Cambridge Law Journal
`An opus extra ordinem'
European Review of Private Law
`sheer academic brilliance'
Maastricht Journal of European and Comparative Law
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- PublisherOxford University Press
- Publication date2007
- ISBN 10 0199205418
- ISBN 13 9780199205417
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number3
- Number of pages422
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