Negative Comparative Law: A Strong Programme for Weak Thought

Comparative Law

Negative Comparative Law: A Strong Programme for Weak Thought

By Pierre Legrand
Cambridge University Press June 2024

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9781009054867
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication
June 2024
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Paperback
Jurisdiction
U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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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.

Table of Contents

1. Raising my game — To fail better
2. Sniffing the wind
3. Onomastics, very briefly
4. More comparative law
5. Borges's challenge
6. Outings
7. For indiscipline
8. Decoloniality
9. The same as the different
10. Comparatism is culturalism
11. This comparatist, even
12. The negative
13. The negative, applied
14. My equipment
15. Appreciation
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