Legal traditions of the world : sustainable diversity in law
"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 attitudes towards the concept of change, and its teaching on relations with traditions and other 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 and transnational work, historians, social scientists, and all those interested in legal traditions that underpin the world's major societies." "'the book that had to be written'-American J. Comp L" "An effective 'antidote' to the clash of civilizations-verfassung und Recht in Obersee" "''firmly based in social theory and history ... thought provoking and stimulating'-Times Higher Ed Supp" "'a genuinely global perspective'-J Comp L" "'a superb book' J South Pacific L" "'colourful, interesting and stimulating ... the account of common law tradition is even more fascinating'-Hong Kong LJ" "'dense, theoretical yet accessible chapters ... its sheer academic brilliance cannot be denied'-Maastricht J European and Comp L" "An 'illuminating and ground-breaking work'-Stellenbosch LR" "'unprecdented bredth of view', 'an opus extra ordinem of great significance'-Z Europaisches Privatrecht" "a 'splendid example of new orientations ... the right book and the right time'-Defensor Legis, Finland" "'a tour de force'-McGill LJ" "'always enlightening ... another vision of the legal world'-Rev. int. droit compare" "'an accessible and brilliant short account of Islamic legal thought'-Australian J Asian L" "'Glenn has succeeded magnificently'-Cambridge LJ."
Print Book, English, 2010
4th ed
Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2010