Legal traditions of the world: sustainable diversity in law / H. Patrick Glenn.

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2007.

3rd edition

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Customary law.

Comparative law.

Legal polycentricity.

1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. A theory of tradition? The changing presence of the past

Between traditions: identity, persuasion and survival

A chthonic legal tradition: to recycle the world

A Talmudic legal tradition: the perfect author

A civil law tradition: the centrality of the person

An Islamic legal tradition: the law of a later revelation

A common law tradition: the ethic of adjudication

A Hindu legal tradition: the law as king, but which law?

An Asian legal tradition: make it new (with Marx?)

Reconciling legal traditions: sustainable diversity in law.

This work offers a major new means of conceptualizing law and legal relations across the world. National laws are placed in the broader context of major legal traditions, those of indigenous law, Talmudic law, civil law, Islamic law, common law, Hindu law and Asian law.

Table of contents and index are taken from the published works with the permission of the publisher.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

9780199205417

xxvi, 395 p.