Comparative Legal Traditions
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This nutshell offers a general introduction to comparative law that includes both an overview of the methods of comparative law as well as of the two most widespread legal traditions in the world:... This description may be from another edition of this product.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0314214747
ISBN13:9780314214744
Release Date:January 1999
Publisher:West Publishing Company
Length:344 Pages
Weight:0.70 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 4.9" x 7.4"
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Good synthesis on civil law
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 20 years ago
The first section on civil law tradition is good. It provides a sense of the complexity of history from Justinian to the great 19c civil codes of France and Germany and their areas of influence in Latin America etc, along with what these countries' systems have in common, and the convergence with Anglo notions in 20c. The essense of civil law seems here to be a certain formalism, emphasizing private law conceived in 3 parts (persons, property, contract) and downplaying the state, dating back to Institutes. The common law section was much less useful to me -- it's a different conception, primarily about the peculiarities of practicing law in England today. The third section is about the attempt to create a unified jurisprudence of Europe; I didn't read it.
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