Legal Traditions of the World: Sustainable Diversity in LawOxford University Press, 2014 - 423 pages 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 chthonic legal tradition and features new discussion on the notion of collective memory. New to this editionFeatures new discussion on the notion of collective memoryCovers increasing recognition of chthonic legal traditionIncludes new coverage of the notions of Big Data, Big History and private cloudsIncreased coverage of treatment of animals in each of the legal traditionsThis title is available as an eBook. Visit VitalSource for more information or to purchase. |
Table des matières
1 A Theory of Tradition? The Changing Presence of the Past | 1 |
Identity Persuasion and Survival | 33 |
to Recycle the World | 60 |
The Perfect Author | 98 |
The Centrality of The Person | 132 |
The Law of a Later Revelation | 180 |
the Ethic of Adjudication | 236 |
The Law as King but which Law? | 287 |
Make it New with Marx? | 319 |
Sustainable Diversity in Law | 361 |
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Expressions et termes fréquents
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