Legal Traditions of the World

Höfundur: H. Patrick Glenn (Útgáfa: 5)
Legal Traditions of the World

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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.

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Útgefandi
Oxford University Press Academic UK
ISBN
9780191055461
Print ISBN
9780199669837
Format
Page Fidelity (PDF)
Útgáfa
5
Höfundar
H. Patrick Glenn
Tungumál
English
Útgefið
2014-05-08
Prent takmörkun á líftíma
100
Prent takmörkun
10
Afritunar takmörkun
2

Kaflar

  • LEGAL TRADITIONS OF THE WORLD
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Dedication
  • Epigraph
  • CONTENTS
  • DETAILED CONTENTS
  • LIST OF GENERAL ABBREVIATIONS
  • LIST OF BIBLICAL ABBREVIATIONS
  • PREFACE TO THE FIFTH EDITION
  • PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION
  • 1 A Theory of Tradition? The Changing Presence of the Past
  • A THEORY OF TRADITION?
  • TRADITION AND TIME
  • PASTNESS
  • PRESENCE
  • TRADITIO
  • TRADITION AS INFORMATION: THE CONCEPTUAL BRAN-TUB
  • MASSAGING TRADITION
  • A NETWORK OF TRADITION
  • THE CHANGING PRESENCE OF THE PAST
  • TRADITION AND CORRUPTION
  • General Bibliography
  • 2 Between Traditions: Identity, Persuasion and Survival
  • TRADITION AND IDENTITY
  • TRADITION, RACES AND STATES
  • PROTECTING IDENTITY
  • PERSUASIVE AUTHORITY: CREATING NEW (AND OLD) EPISTEMIC COMMUNITIES
  • COMMENSURABILITY: OF APPLES AND ORANGES
  • UNIVERSALIZING: RULING THE WORLD THROUGH TRUTH
  • GLOBALIZATIONS
  • THE STATE AND THE NEW DIASPORAS
  • THE VIEW FROM SOMEWHERE ELSE
  • General Bibliography
  • 3 A Chthonic Legal Tradition: to Recycle the World
  • A TRADITION EMERGES
  • OF SOURCES AND STRUCTURES
  • ON WAYS OF LIFE
  • THE WEB OF BELIEFS
  • LAW’S DOMAIN
  • REASON’S DOMAIN
  • LAW AND THE COSMOS
  • CHANGE AND THE NATURAL WORLD
  • CHTHONIC WAYS AND OTHER WAYS
  • CHTHONIC AND OTHER IDENTITIES
  • THE STATE AS MIDDLE GROUND
  • CHTHONIC TOPICS
  • CHTHONIC PEOPLES, STATES AND HUMAN RIGHTS
  • UNIVERSALIZING THE CHTHONIC?
  • General Bibliography
  • Web Sites
  • 4 A Talmudic Legal Tradition: The Perfect Author
  • A TRADITION ROOTED IN REVELATION
  • THE WRITTEN WORDS
  • THE WRITTEN WORDS PROLIFERATE
  • APPLYING DIVINE LAW
  • THE DIVINE LAW APPLIED
  • THE TALMUD AND REVELATION
  • HALAKHAH AND AGGADAH
  • TALMUD AND TORAH
  • THE STYLE OF THE TEXT
  • THE STYLE OF REASON
  • THE INDIVIDUAL IN THE TALMUD
  • TALMUD, THE DIVINE WILL AND CHANGE
  • OF SCHOOLS, TRADITIONS AND MOVEMENTS
  • TALMUD AND CORRUPTION
  • TALMUDIC LAW AND STATE LAW
  • TALMUDIC LAW AND JEWISH IDENTITY
  • TALMUDIC RETREAT?
  • TALMUDIC EXAMPLE?
  • A UNIVERSAL TALMUD?
  • General Bibliography
  • Web Sites
  • 5 A Civil Law Tradition: The Centrality of The Person
  • CONSTRUCTING A TRADITION
  • SOURCES AND INSTITUTIONS
  • SUBSTANTIVE, SECULAR LAW
  • ROMAN LAW AND LAW IN EUROPE
  • CONSTRUCTING NATIONAL LAW
  • THE RATIONALITY OF THE CODES
  • LAW’S EXPANSION
  • LAW’S EXPRESSION
  • THE CENTRALITY OF THE PERSON AND THE GROWTH OF RIGHTS
  • LAW AS REASON’S INSTRUMENT
  • CHANGING THE WORLD AND CHANGING THE LAW
  • THE SELF-DENIAL OF ROMAN LAW
  • CHANGING THE IDEA OF CHANGE
  • POSITIVE LAW AND POSITIVE SCIENCE
  • REVOLUTIONS, SYSTEMS, LANGUAGE AND INTERPRETATION
  • CIVIL LAW AND COMPARATIVE LAW
  • EUROPEAN IDENTITIES
  • PROTECTING IDENTITY
  • THE SCIENCE OF COMPARISON
  • CIVIL LAW IN THE WORLD
  • General Bibliography
  • Web Sites
  • 6 An Islamic Legal Tradition: The Law of a Later Revelation
  • A TRADITION ROOTED IN LATER REVELATION
  • THE SHARI’A: SOURCES
  • QADI JUSTICE AND MUFTI LEARNING
  • SUBSTANTIVE SHARI’A
  • SHARI’A AND REVELATION
  • SHARI’A AND KALAM
  • IJMA, THE HADITH AND REVELATION
  • ISLAMIC TEXTS AND ISLAMIC REASON: THE ROLE OF IJTIHAD
  • THE INDIVIDUAL IN THE SHARI’A
  • IJMA AND CHANGE
  • OF SCHOOLS AND SCHISM
  • SUBTLE CHANGE
  • RE-OPENING THE DOOR OF ENDEAVOUR
  • ISLAMS AND THE WORLD
  • THE UMMA AND ITS PROTECTION
  • CONTRAPUNTAL EXCHANGE, WITH ISLAMS
  • THE ISLAMIC DIASPORA
  • JIHAD
  • General Bibliography
  • Web Sites
  • 7 A Common Law Tradition: the Ethic of Adjudication
  • BIRTH AND DEVELOPMENT
  • OF JUDGES AND JUDGING
  • LAWYER’S LAW: PLEADING TO ISSUE
  • THE SECRETED LAW
  • A COMMUNAL LAW
  • FORMAL LIMITS AND INFORMAL ACCOMMODATION
  • COMMUNAL RELATIONS
  • RIGHT REASON
  • INCREMENTAL CHANGE
  • CHANGING SECRETED LAW
  • CHANGING FUNDAMENTALS: PROCEDURE
  • CHANGING THOUGHT
  • COMMON LAW AND UNCOMMON LAW
  • COMMON LAW AND STATES
  • THE PRACTICE OF MULTIPLE LAWS
  • WESTERN LAW IN THE WORLD
  • WESTERN LAW AND CORRUPTION
  • General Bibliography
  • Web Sites
  • 8 A Hindu Legal Tradition: The Law as King, but which Law?
  • A TRADITION OF DISTANT REVELATION
  • OF VEDAS, SASTRAS AND COMMENTARIES
  • POETIC JUSTICE
  • POETIC LAW
  • KARMA, DHARMA AND THE KING
  • THE WEIGHT OF KARMA
  • DHARMA AND THE KING
  • FULFILLING DHARMA
  • TOLERATING CHANGE
  • TIME AND BRAHMAN
  • SADACHARA AND SCHOOLS
  • CHANGE THROUGH LAW
  • TOLERATING OTHERS
  • HINDU IDENTITY
  • HINDU LAW IN INDIA
  • UNIVERSAL TOLERANCE?
  • General Bibliography
  • Web Sites
  • 9 A Confucian Legal Tradition: Make it New (with Marx?)
  • A TRADITION OF PERSUASION
  • ON LI AND FA
  • IMPERIAL INSTITUTIONS
  • LI IN EAST ASIA
  • CONFUCIAN WAYS
  • LI’S DOMAIN
  • LIMITING FA
  • LIMITING RELIGION
  • CONFUCIANIZATION
  • LI, SOCIAL HARMONY AND RIGHT
  • CHANGE AND THE ETERNAL EMPIRE
  • EAST ASIAN TIME AND SPACE
  • CONFUCIAN CORRUPTION
  • EAST ASIA AS CENTRE OF THE WORLD
  • EAST ASIAN IDENTITIES
  • LAYERED TRADITION
  • WESTERN LAW IN EAST ASIA
  • SOCIALIST LAW IN EAST ASIA
  • RIGHTS AND CONFUCIAN TRADITION
  • EASTERNIZATION?
  • General Bibliography
  • Web Sites
  • 10 Reconciling Legal Traditions: Sustainable Diversity in Law
  • THE MULTIPLICITY OF TRADITIONS
  • INTERNAL TRADITIONS
  • LATERAL TRADITIONS
  • RECONCILING TRADITIONS
  • THE NORMATIVITY OF TRADITION
  • COMPLEX TRADITIONS
  • BIVALENCE AND MULTIVALENCE
  • BEYOND TOLERANCE?
  • RECONCILING COMPLEX TRADITIONS
  • SUSTAINABLE DIVERSITY IN LAW
  • SUSTAINING DIVERSITY
  • THE WAYS OF DIVERSITY
  • Index