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Winner of the Grand Prize of the International Academy of Comparative Law
Provides an overview of major legal institutions and principles in each tradition facilitating understanding of law in a broader context
Provides a comprehensive treatment of major legal traditions of the world and incorporates a superb level of scholarship and analysis
Adopts a genuinely global perspective making it an invaluable resource for courses worldwide
Includes extensive references and web links at the end of each chapter, to aid and encourage further research
A seminal text from a leading teacher and researcher in the field of comparative law. Professor Glenn is a former Director of the Institute of Comparative Law, McGill University, a member of the International Academy of Comparative Law, and has been a Visiting Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford
New to this edition
Includes a thoroughly revised and restructured chapter on confucian legal traditions
Features interesting discussion of how legal traditions relate to parallel notions of collective memory, places of memory, and deep history
Considers developments in the legal systems of the European Union, in the context of each relevant legal tradition
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 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.
Readership: Suitable for both undergraduate and postgraduate comparative law courses worldwide. Of particular interest to students and academics in the US where comparative law is very popular. Also of interest to students of legal history, legal philosophy, international development, international human rights and international business.
1: A Theory of Tradition? The Changing Presence of the Past2: Between Traditions: Identity, Persuasion and Survival3: A Chthonic Legal Tradition: to Recycle the World4: A Talmudic Legal Tradition: the Perfect Author5: A Civil Law Tradition: the Centrality of the Person6: An Islamic Legal Tradition: the Law of the Later Revelation7: A Common Law Tradition: the Ethic of Adjudication8: A Hindu Legal Tradition: the Law of King, but which Law?9: A Confucian Legal Tradition: Make it new (with Marx?)10: Reconciling Legal Traditions: Sustainable Diversity in Law
Patrick Glenn, Peter M Laing Professor of Law at McGill University, Montreal
Review(s) from previous edition
"Review(s) from previous edition
"the book that needed to be written - American Journal of Comparative Law
"an effective antidote to the clash 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
"...this text is learned (with amazing footnotes and a bibliography after almost every chapter) and very thought provoking" - Penny Booth, Times Higher Education Supplement
