Comparative law and hybrid legal traditions
Subtitle: Lausanne, 10-11 September 2009
By: Eleanor Cashin Ritaine, Seán Patrick Donlan, Martin Sychold (eds.).
Series: Publications de l'Institut suisse de droit comparé = -- Veröffentlichungen des Schweizerischen Instituts für Rechtsvergleichung = -- Publications of the Swiss Institute of Comparative Law -- 67; Publications de l'Institut suisse de droit comparé -- 67.
Publisher: Schulthess
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Zürich
Language: eng
Number of pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9783725562220
Subjects: Congresses; Comparative law; Legal polycentricity
Description: Collection of papers delivered at a symposium held in Lausanne, 10-11 September 2009."
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Histories of hybridity : a problem, a primer, a plea and a plan (of sorts) / Sean Patrick Donlan; title: Two hundred (200) years of civil law in English : Louisiana's lonely destiny / Alain Levasseur; title: Multidimensional hybridity : Nepali law from a comparative perspective / Lukas Heckendorn Ursheler; title: Chinese law : a new hybrid / Ignazio Castrellucci; title: African legal hybirdity : interaction of Western, Islamic and Native law in the Comorian legal system / Salvatore Manusco; title: A framework for comparative analyses of international law and its institutions : using the example of the World Trade Organization / Colin B. Picker; title: Mixed and hybrid jurisdictions : comparative and methodological considerations / Eleanor Cashin Ritaine.