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Legal Traditions of the World: Sustainable diversity in law
Legal Traditions of the World places national laws in the broader context of major legal traditions. 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.
| Author(s) | By H. Patrick Glenn (Peter M Laing Professor of Law at McGill University, Montreal). |
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| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Format | Paperback / softback |
| Pages | 456 |
| Published in | United Kingdom |
| Published | 8 May 2014 |
| Availability | Available |
Legal Traditions of the World places national laws in the broader context of major legal traditions. 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.
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: th
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 al
