Comparative Law And Legal Traditions

Author : George Mousourakis
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9783030282813

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The primary aim of this book is to provide clear and reliable information on a number of central topics in comparative law. At a time when global society is increasingly mobile and legal life is internationalized, the role of comparative law is gaining importance. While the growing interest in this field may well be attributed to the dramatic increase in international legal transactions, this empirical parameter is only part of the explanation. The other part, and (at least) equally important, has to do with the expectation of gaining a deeper understanding of law as a social phenomenon and a fresh insight into the current state and future direction of one’s own legal system. In response to the internationalization of legal practice and theory, law schools around the world have expanded their comparative law programs. Within the legal subjects that form the core of the curriculum there is a greater interest in comparative legal analysis, as well as greater attention to how global developments and international actors and institutions affect domestic law. Transnational legal education based on comparative reasoning is intended to help shape a new generation of lawyers, public servants and other professionals who recognize and respect cultural diversity in an interconnected world. The central topics discussed in this book include: the nature and scope of comparative legal inquiries; the relationship of comparative law to other fields of legal study; the aims and uses of comparative law; the origins and historical development of comparative law; and the evolution and defining features of some of the world’s predominant legal traditions. It also deals with selected theoretical aspects, such as the problem of comparability of legal events; the classification of legal systems into families of law; and the topics of legal transplants, harmonization and convergence of laws. Chiefly intended for students, the book also discusses a number of fundamental issues concerning the development of comparative law, and devotes certain sections to reviewing the salient features of the relevant literature on definitional, terminological, methodological and historical issues.

Author : Michael J. Bazyler,Michael S. Bryant,Kristen Nelson,Sermid Dean Al-Sarraf
Publisher : Carolina Academic Press LLC
Page : 888 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Comparative law
ISBN : 1531007856

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Global Legal Traditions by Michael J. Bazyler,Michael S. Bryant,Kristen Nelson,Sermid Dean Al-Sarraf Pdf

"Global Legal Traditions: Comparative Law for the 21st Century explores four legal traditions from around the world, both Western (German civil law and English common law) and non-Western (Chinese law and Islamic law). The book opens by focusing on European-based civil law, represented by German law, before moving on to the common law legal tradition seen in English law. Some comparative law casebooks and study guides stop with Western law but Global Legal Traditions continues by turning to the study of a secular non-European legal tradition by examining Chinese law, or more specifically the law of the People's Republic of China. The book's final section covers the non-state, religion-based legal tradition found in Islamic law, both in its pre-state form and how Islamic law manifests itself within the confines of sovereign state powers. Each part contains seven chapters intended to enable students to draw comparisons and make distinctions between the legal traditions under review. Each part includes five chapters covering common topics: history and development of the legal tradition; political process; judicial process; legal actors and legal education; and civil law. The remaining two chapters for each part focus on a legal subject most relevant to that legal tradition"--

Author : George Mousourakis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Comparative law
ISBN : 3030282821

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Comparative Law and Legal Traditions by George Mousourakis Pdf

The primary aim of this book is to provide clear and reliable information on a number of central topics in comparative law. At a time when global society is increasingly mobile and legal life is internationalized, the role of comparative law is gaining importance. While the growing interest in this field may well be attributed to the dramatic increase in international legal transactions, this empirical parameter is only part of the explanation. The other part, and (at least) equally important, has to do with the expectation of gaining a deeper understanding of law as a social phenomenon and a fresh insight into the current state and future direction of one's own legal system. In response to the internationalization of legal practice and theory, law schools around the world have expanded their comparative law programs. Within the legal subjects that form the core of the curriculum there is a greater interest in comparative legal analysis, as well as greater attention to how global developments and international actors and institutions affect domestic law. Transnational legal education based on comparative reasoning is intended to help shape a new generation of lawyers, public servants and other professionals who recognize and respect cultural diversity in an interconnected world. The central topics discussed in this book include: the nature and scope of comparative legal inquiries; the relationship of comparative law to other fields of legal study; the aims and uses of comparative law; the origins and historical development of comparative law; and the evolution and defining features of some of the world's predominant legal traditions. It also deals with selected theoretical aspects, such as the problem of comparability of legal events; the classification of legal systems into families of law; and the topics of legal transplants, harmonization and convergence of laws.

Author : Mary Ann Glendon,Michael W. Gordon,Paolo G. Carozza,Paolo Wright-Carozza
Publisher : West Academic Publishing
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Comparative law
ISBN : STANFORD:36105061977216

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Comparative Legal Traditions in a Nutshell by Mary Ann Glendon,Michael W. Gordon,Paolo G. Carozza,Paolo Wright-Carozza Pdf

An introduction to comparative law written from the American lawyer's viewpoint rather than that of the European civil law lawyer. This expert discussion concentrates on the three major legal traditions of the West: civil, common, and socialist. Subjects covered include legal structures in civil law nations; legal actors in civil law tradition; procedure; substantive law; sources of law; judicial process; and rules. Also contains chapters on the European Union and the European human rights system.

Author : Pierre Legrand,Roderick Munday
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2003-08-14
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781107320338

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Comparative Legal Studies: Traditions and Transitions by Pierre Legrand,Roderick Munday Pdf

The 14 essays that make up this 2003 volume are written by leading international scholars to provide an authoritative survey of the state of comparative legal studies. Representing such varied disciplines as the law, political science, sociology, history and anthropology, the contributors review the intellectual traditions that have evolved within the discipline of comparative legal studies, explore the strengths and failings of the various methodologies that comparatists adopt and, significantly, explore the directions that the subject is likely to take in the future. No previous work had examined so comprehensively the philosophical and methodological foundations of comparative law. This is quite simply a book with which anyone embarking on comparative legal studies will have to engage.

Author : Mary Ann Glendon,Paolo G. Carozza,Colin Picker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Comparative law
ISBN : 0314917500

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Comparative Legal Traditions by Mary Ann Glendon,Paolo G. Carozza,Colin Picker Pdf

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Author : Mary Ann Glendon,Paolo G. Carozza,Paolo Wright-Carozza,Colin Picker
Publisher : West Academic Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Comparative law
ISBN : 0314184287

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Comparative Legal Traditions in a Nutshell by Mary Ann Glendon,Paolo G. Carozza,Paolo Wright-Carozza,Colin Picker Pdf

An introduction to comparative law written from the American lawyer's viewpoint rather than that of the European civil law lawyer. This expert discussion concentrates on the three major legal traditions of the West: civil, common, and socialist. Subjects covered include legal structures in civil law nations; legal actors in civil law tradition; procedure; substantive law; sources of law; judicial process; and rules. Also contains chapters on the European Union and the European human rights system.

Author : Mary Ann Glendon,Michael W. Gordon,Christopher Osakwe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1148 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Law
ISBN : STANFORD:36105043877963

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Comparative Legal Traditions by Mary Ann Glendon,Michael W. Gordon,Christopher Osakwe Pdf

Author : Mary Ann Glendon,Michael W. Gordon,Christopher Osakwe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Comparative law
ISBN : UCSD:31822020576955

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Comparative Legal Traditions in a Nutshell by Mary Ann Glendon,Michael W. Gordon,Christopher Osakwe Pdf

Author : Olivier Moréteau,Aniceto Masferrer,Kjell A. Modéer
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2024-05-23
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781781955222

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Comparative Legal History by Olivier Moréteau,Aniceto Masferrer,Kjell A. Modéer Pdf

The specially commissioned papers in this book lay a solid theoretical foundation for comparative legal history as a distinct academic discipline. While facilitating a much needed dialogue between comparatists and legal historians, this research handbook examines methodologies in this emerging field and reconsiders legal concepts and institutions like custom, civil procedure, and codification from a comparative legal history perspective.

Author : Günther Doeker-Mach,Klaus A. Ziegert
Publisher : Franz Steiner Verlag
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 3515085602

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Law and Legal Culture in Comparative Perspective by Günther Doeker-Mach,Klaus A. Ziegert Pdf

Comparative legal studies are at last commanding the thoughts of contemporary jurists� Alice ES Tay. Drawing on an impressive ancestry in comparative law, the 22 contributions in this volume by authors from Asia, Australia and Europe go further in their complex conception of law and culture. They look at the new principles and concepts of a transnational, global law in new, multiple contexts and in diverse juxtapositions with new institutions and authorities. In an unplanned but cohesive pattern the individual contributions together open a fresh vision of the use and value of comparative legal studies for the assessment of the function and limitations of the law of a global society.

Author : H. Patrick Glenn
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 451 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780199669837

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Legal Traditions of the World by H. Patrick Glenn Pdf

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 concept of legal tradition is explained as non-conflict in character and compatible with new and inclusive forms of logic.

Author : Benjamin J Richardson,Shin Imai,Kent McNeil
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2009-03-18
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781509942206

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Indigenous Peoples and the Law by Benjamin J Richardson,Shin Imai,Kent McNeil Pdf

Indigenous Peoples and the Law provides an historical, comparative and contextual analysis of various legal and policy issues affecting Indigenous peoples. It focuses on the common law jurisdictions of Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United States, as well as relevant international law developments. Edited by Benjamin J Richardson, Shin Imai, and Kent McNeil, this collection of new essays features 13 contributors including many Indigenous scholars, drawn from around the world. The book provides a pithy overview of the subject-matter, enabling readers to appreciate the seminal issues, precedents and international legal trends of most concern to Indigenous peoples. The first half of Indigenous Peoples and the Law takes an historical perspective of the principal jurisdictions, canvassing, in particular, themes of Indigenous sovereignty, status and identity, and the movement for Indigenous self-determination. It also examines these issues in an international context, including the Inter-American human rights regime and the 2007 UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. The second part of the book canvasses some contemporary issues and claims of Indigenous peoples, including land rights, mobility rights, community self-governance, environmental governance, alternative dispute resolution processes, the legal status of Aboriginal women and the place of Indigenous legal traditions and legal theory. Although an introductory volume designed primarily for readers without advanced understanding of Indigenous legal issues, Indigenous Peoples and the Law should also appeal to seasoned scholars, policy-makers, lawyers and others who are knowledgeable of such issues in their own jurisdiction and wish to learn more about developments in other places.

Author : Helge Dedek
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2021-12-16
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781108841726

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A Cosmopolitan Jurisprudence by Helge Dedek Pdf

Inspired by comparative law scholar Patrick Glenn's work, an international group of legal scholars explores the state of the discipline.

Author : Jaakko Husa
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2015-05-28
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781849469524

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A New Introduction to Comparative Law by Jaakko Husa Pdf

This thought-provoking introduction to the study of comparative law provides in-depth analyses of all major comparative methodologies and theories and serves as a common sense guide to the study of foreign legal systems. It is written in a lively and accessible style and will prove indispensable reading to students of the subject. It also contains much that will be of interest to comparative law scholars, offering novel insights into commonplace methodological and theoretical questions and making a significant contribution to the field.