Legal Traditions of the World: Sustainable Diversity in Law

by H. Patrick Glenn

This prize-winning work 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 Asian 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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199205418
• ISBN13: 9780199205417
• Release Date: May 2007
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 395 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 9.6" x 6.6"