Legal Traditions of the World: Sustainable Diversity in Law

by H. Patrick Glenn

Legal Traditions of the World is a prize-winning work that offers a major new means of conceptualizing law and legal relations across the world. National laws are placed 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199580804
• ISBN13: 9780199580804
• Release Date: July 2010
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 9.6" x 6.7"