1: A Theory of Tradition? The Changing Presence of the Past2: Between Traditions: Identity, Persuasion and Survival3: A Chthonic Legal Tradition: to Recycle the World4: A Talmudic Legal Tradition: the Perfect Author5: A Civil Law Tradition: the Centrality of the Person6: An Islamic Legal Tradition: the Law of the Later Revelation7: A Common Law Tradition: the Ethic of Adjudication8: A Hindu Legal Tradition: the Law of King, but which Law?9: A Confucian Legal Tradition: Make it new (with Marx?)10: Reconciling Legal Traditions: Sustainable Diversity in Law
H. Patrick Glenn is the Peter M. Laing Professor of Law, Faculty of
Law and a Member of the International Academy of Comparative
Law.
Professor Glenn teaches and has research interests in the areas of
comparative law, private international law, civil procedure and the
legal professions. The first edition of Legal Traditions of the
World (Oxford University Press, 2000) received the Grand Prize of
the International Academy of Comparative Law.
He is a former Director of the Institute of Comparative Law, McGill
University, and in that capacity worked on projects on the reform
of the Russian Civil Code and judicial education in China. He is a
member of the Royal Society of Canada and the International Academy
of Comparative Law and has been a Bora Laskin National Fellow in
Human Rights Law, a Killam Research Fellow, and a Visiting Fellow
of All Souls College, Oxford.
Review(s) from previous edition"Review(s) from previous edition"the
book that needed to be written - American Journal of Comparative
Law
"an effective antidote to the clash of civilizations" - Recht und
Verfassung Ubersee
"Illuminating and ground breaking work" - Stellenbosch Law
Review
"Glenn has succeeded magnificently" - Cambridge Law Journal
"An opus extra ordinem" - European Review of Private Law
"sheer academic brilliance" - Maastricht Journal of European and
Comparative Law
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