Legal Traditions of the World, 5th Edition
Sustainable diversity in law
$113.09
- Paperback
450 pages
- Release Date
19 May 2014
Summary
Legal Traditions of the World places national laws in the broader context of major legal traditions, those of chthonic (or indigenous) law, talmudic law, civil law, islamic law, common law, hindu law and confucian law. Each tradition is examined in terms of its institutions and substantive law, its founding concepts and methods, its attitude towards the concept of change and its teaching on relations with other traditions and peoples.
The fifth edition covers increasing recognition of…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780199669837 |
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| ISBN-10: | 019966983X |
| Author: | H. Patrick Glenn |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
| Imprint: | Oxford University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 450 |
| Edition: | 5th |
| Release Date: | 19 May 2014 |
| Weight: | 765g |
| Dimensions: | 247mm x 171mm x 23mm |
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“Illuminating and ground breaking work” –Stellenbosch Law Review
firmly based in social theory and history… thought provoking and stimulating * Times Higher Education *Illuminating and ground breaking work * Stellenbosch Law Review *Glenn has succeeded magnificently * Cambridge Law Journal *An opus extra ordinem * European Review of Private Law *dense, theoretical yet accesible chapters… its sheer academic brilliance cannot be denied * Maastricht Journal of European and Comparative Law *
About The Author
H. Patrick Glenn
The late Professor Glenn taught and had research interests in the areas of comparative law, private international law, civil procedure and the legal professions. He was a former Director of the Institute of Comparative Law, McGill University. He was also a member of the Royal Society of Canada and the International Academy of Comparative Law and had been a Bora Laskin National Fellow in Human Rights Law, a Killam Research Fellow, and a Visiting Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford.
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