Courts, codes, and custom
Subtitle: legal tradition and state policy toward international human rights and environmental law
By: Dana Zartner
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 329
ISBN-13: 9780199362103
Subjects: Human rights; Law; International law; Rule of law; History
Description: This text explores the role of legal tradition in shaping state policy toward international human rights and environmental law. Examining the institutional and cultural characteristics within a state's legal tradition across ten case studies, the book shows the importance of domestic legal factors to understanding state policy toward international law.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-311) and index.
Table of contents: title: Constructing the cornerstone : the role of legal tradition in shaping state policy toward international law --; title: The common law : legal culture, courts, and the continuity of policy in the United States and Australia --; title: The civil law : history and nationalism in Germany and Turkey --; title: Religious legal traditions: the role of Islam in shaping policy in Egypt and Saudi Arabia --; title: Mixed legal traditions : the impact of custom and colonialism in India and Kenya --; title: East Asian legal tradition : Confucius, Communism, and community in China and Japan.