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Legal Traditions of the World: Sustainable diversity in law, 5th Edition

Legal Traditions of the World: Sustainable diversity in law, 5th Edition

Author: H. Patrick Glenn
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780199669837
Published In: May 2014
Format: Paperback , 456 pages
Jurisdiction: International ? Disclaimer:
Countri(es) stated herein are used as reference only

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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

New to this edition

Includes use of legal tradition as explanatory device in different areas of law
Covers increasing recognition of chthonic legal tradition
Reflects increasing anti-corruption activity
Includes recent writing on neuroscience and law
Rejects the concept of nation-state in favour of that of the cosmopolitan state

Legal Traditions of the World places national laws 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. The concept of legal tradition is explained as non-conflictual in character and compatible with new and inclusive forms of logic.

Readership: Suitable for both undergraduate and postgraduate comparative law courses worldwide. 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 past
2: Between traditions: identity, persuasion and survival
3: A chthonic legal tradition: to recycle the world
4: A talmudic legal tradition: the perfect author
5: A civil law tradition: the centrality of the person
6: An islamic legal tradition: the law of the later revelation
7: A common law tradition: the ethic of adjudication
8: 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

Professor Glenn teaches and has research interests in the areas of comparative law, private international law, civil procedure and the legal professions. He is a former Director of the Institute of Comparative Law, McGill University. He is also a member of the Royal Society of Canada and the International Academy of Comparative Law and has been a Bora Laskin National Fellow in Human Rights Law, a Killam Research Fellow, and a Visiting Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford.

"firmly based in social theory and history... thought provoking and stimulating " - Times Higher Education

"Illuminating and ground breaking work " - Stellenbosch Law Review

"Glenn has succeeded magnificently " - Cambridge Law Journal

"An opus extra ordinem " - European Review of Private Law

"dense, theoretical yet accesible chapters... its sheer academic brilliance cannot be denied" - Maastricht Journal of European and Comparative Law