Legal traditions of the world
Subtitle: sustainable diversity in law
By: H. Patrick Glenn.
Edition: 3rd ed.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 395
ISBN-13: 9780199205417
Subjects: Comparative law; Customary law; Legal polycentricity
Description: Previous editions published : 2nd (2004) and 1st (2000).
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A theory of tradition? the changing presence of the past; title: Between traditions: identity, persuasion and survival; title: A Chthonic legal tradition: to recycle the world; title: A Talmudic legal tradition: the perfect author; title: A civil law tradition: the centrality of the person; title: An Islamic legal tradition: the law of a later revelation; title: A common law tradition: the ethic of adjudication; title: A Hindu legal tradition: the law as king, but which law?; title: An Asian legal tradition: make it new (with Marx?); title: Reconciling legal traditions: sustainable diversity in law.