Legal Traditions of the World: Sustainable Diversity in Law

by Patrick Glenn

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019966983X
• ISBN13: 9780199669837
• Release Date: August 2014
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 456 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.7" x 9.6"