Negative Comparative Law (Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law, Series Number 167) - Softcover

Legrand, Pierre

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1009054864 ISBN 13: 9781009054867

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2024

Synopsis

Written under the sign of Beckett, this book addresses comparative law's commitment to the deterritorialization of the legal and its attendant claim for the normative relevance of foreign law locally in the fabrication of statutory determinations, judicial opinions, or academic reflections. Wanting to withstand the law's persistent tendency towards nationalist retrenchment and counter comparative law's institutional marginalization, the fifteen essays at hand impart radical and discerning intellectual equipment in order to foster the valorization of the legally foreign and the comparative motion. In particular, the critique informing this manifesto examines pre-eminent topics like culture and difference, understanding and translatability, objectivity and truth, invention and tracing. Harnessing insights from a range of disciplinary discourses, this book contends that comparatists must boldly desist from their field's dominant epistemology and embrace a practice much better attuned to the study of foreignness.

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Pierre Legrand teaches comparative law at the Sorbonne.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1009054864
• ISBN 13: 9781009054867
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 486