This prize winning work provides a new and inclusive means of conceptualizinglaw and legal relations across the world, by placing national laws in the broader context of legal traditions. All major legal traditions of the world are discussed, compared and analyzed. INDICE: 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: ReconcilingLegal Traditions: Sustainable Diversity in Law
- ISBN: 978-0-19-958080-4
- Editorial: Oxford University
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 448
- Fecha Publicación: 20/05/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés