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"I have always thought that Patrick Glenn's personal features, his modest and unassuming way of communicating, his persistent open-mindedness to new and others' arguments, also lie at the core of his scholarly work. In the following pages, I will try to show this connection by putting in context and in perspective his legacy as a scholar. Notwithstanding his impressive production, there is no doubt that Patrick Glenn will be long remembered for his opus magnum and for the debates it triggered. In my view, Legal Traditions of the World1 is grounded upon three key notions: Law, Tradition, and Conciliation. I will address these notions critically and sequentially, as if they were strands of a thread through which both Patrick Glenn's personality and scholarship are woven"--
List of contents
Introduction: Where the 'Real Action' Is: From Comparative Law to Cosmopolitan Jurisprudence; Part I. The Tradition of 'Comparative Law': Context, History, Promise: 1. How to Do Comparative Law: Some Lessons to Be Learned Mauro Bussani; 2. The 'Comparative Method' at the Roots of Comparative Law Giorgio Resta; 3. The Value of Micro-Comparison John Bell; 4. Sociocultural Challenges for Comparative Legal Studies in Mixed Legal Systems Esin Örücü 5. Breaking Barriers in Comparative Law Michele Graziadei; Part II The Concept of Tradition: Potential and Challenges: 6. Too Much Information Martin Krygier; 7. Legal Systems as Legal Traditions Catherine Valcke; 8. Learning from Patrick Glenn: Tradition, Change, and Innovation David Nelken; 9. The Sunni Legal Tradition: An Overview of Pluralism, Formalism, and Reform Ahmed Fekry Ibrahim; 10. Commensurability, Comparative Law, and Confucian Legal Tradition Marie Seong-Hak Kim; Part III. Crossing Boundaries: Cultural Transfer, Legal Cosmopolitanism, and the Dissolution of the State: 11. The School of Salamanca: A Common Law? Thomas Duve; 12. The Un-Common Law Vivian Grosswald Curran; 13. The Fabric of Normative Translation in Law Ko Hasegawa; 14. Statehood as Process: The Modern State Between Closure and Openness Gunnar Folke Schuppert; 15. Cosmopolitan Attachments Neil Walker.
Summary
Engaging critically with comparative law scholar Patrick Glenn's intellectual legacy, this volume examines his vision of law as tradition and of a 'cosmopolitan state.' An international group of leading scholars takes stock of the field of comparative law and where it is headed.
