Summary



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 andconfucian 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. Legal traditions are explained in terms of multivalent andnon-c (...read more)



Author Notes



H. Patrick Glenn is the Peter M. Laing Professor of Law at McGill University, Montreal, and a Member of the International Academy of Comparative Law.