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Legal traditions of the world : Sustainable diversity in law

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Publication details: Oxford Oxford University Press 2007Edition: 3rdDescription: 395p xxivISBN:
  • 9780199205417
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 340.200000 GLE
Contents:
Contents: List of abbreviations of periodicals and law reports; List of biblical abbreviations; Preface to the second edition; Preface to the first edition; 1: A theory of tradition? The changing presence of the past 1; 2: Between traditions: identity, persuasion and survival 31; 3: A chthonic legal tradition: to recycle the world 58; 4: A Talmudic legal tradition: the perfect author 93; 5: A civil law tradition: the centrality of the person 125; 6: An Islamic legal tradition: the law of the later revelation 171; 7: A common law tradition: the ethic of adjudication 224; 8: A Hindu legal tradition: the law as king, but which law? 273; 9: A Confucian legal tradition: make it new (with Marx?) 303; 10: Reconciling legal traditions: sustainable diversity in law 344; Index 367.
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Contents:
List of abbreviations of periodicals and law reports;
List of biblical abbreviations;
Preface to the second edition;
Preface to the first edition;
1: A theory of tradition? The changing presence of the past 1;
2: Between traditions: identity, persuasion and survival 31;
3: A chthonic legal tradition: to recycle the world 58;
4: A Talmudic legal tradition: the perfect author 93;
5: A civil law tradition: the centrality of the person 125;
6: An Islamic legal tradition: the law of the later revelation 171;
7: A common law tradition: the ethic of adjudication 224;
8: A Hindu legal tradition: the law as king, but which law? 273;
9: A Confucian legal tradition: make it new (with Marx?) 303;
10: Reconciling legal traditions: sustainable diversity in law 344;
Index 367.