Rethinking the masters of comparative law
By: edited by Annelise Riles.
Contributors: Riles, Annelise.
Publisher: Hart Pub.
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Oxford; Portland, Or
Language: eng
Number of pages: 262
Subjects: Comparative law.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Pt. 1. Founding moments; title: Montesquieu : the specter of depotism and the origins of comparative law / Robert Launay; title: Max Weber and the uncertainties of categorical comparative law / Ahmed A. White; title: Pt. II. The critique of classicism; title: Rethinking Hermann Kantorowicz : free law, American legal realism and the legacy of anti-formalism / Vivian Grosswald Curran; title: Encountering amateurism : John Henry Wigmore and the uses of American formalism / Annelise Riles; title: Pt. III. The science of modernization; title: Nobushige Huzumi : a skill transplanter of Western legal thought into Japanese soil / Hitoshi Aoki; title: Sanhuri, and the historical origins of comparative law in the Arab world (or how sometimes losing your Asalah can be good for you) / Amr Shalakany; title: Sculpting the agenda of comparative law : Ernst Rabel and the facade of language / David J. Gerber; title: Pt. IV. Mid-Century pragmatism; title: René David : at the head of the head of the legal family / Jorge L. Esquirol; title: The comparative jurisprudence of Schlesinger and Sacco : a study in legal influence / Ugo Mattei.