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Legal Traditions of the World

Sustainable Diversity in Law

Fifth Edition

Patrick Glenn

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9780199669837
Published:
20 May 2014
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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 edition

  • Features new discussion on the notion of collective memory
  • Covers increasing recognition of chthonic legal tradition
  • Includes new coverage of the notions of Big Data, Big History and private clouds
  • Increased coverage of treatment of animals in each of the legal traditions

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1. A theory of tradition? The changing presence of the past
2. Between traditions: identity, persuasion and survival
3. A chthonic legal tradition: to recycle the world
4. A Talmudic legal tradition: the perfect author
5. A civil law tradition: the centrality of the person
6. An Islamic legal tradition: the law of the later revelation
7. A common law tradition: the ethic of adjudication
8. A Hindu legal tradition: the law of king, but which law?
9. A Confucian legal tradition: make it new (with Marx?)
10. Reconciling legal traditions: sustainable diversity in law

Patrick Glenn - Peter M Laing Professor of Law at McGill University, Montreal

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.

`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