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1 online resource |
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text txt rdacontent |
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computer c rdamedia |
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online resource cr rdacarrier |
| Series |
Global perspectives on legal history ; volume 11 |
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Global perspectives on legal history ; v. 11.
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| Language |
In Italian with 3 articles in English and 2 in Spanish. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Note |
PDF (JSTOR, viewed August 20, 2018). |
| Summary |
"Comparative law and the history of law are traditionally devoted to expanding the context of legal rules and legal institutions. Comparison involves history, as the well-known motto proclaims, but history also involves comparison. Both disciplines are in fact interested in deepening the space-time coordinates of law as a social phenomenon, which means that they take up a critical approach to their object of study. In recent years, this trait is increasingly coming into conflict with the tendency to present law as a mere technocratic instrument for organizing societies. As a result of the "end of history" discourse, the Western economic and political order has become a definitive point of reference worldwide, with law scholars charged with identifying best practices to enhance their efficiency. A group of comparative lawyers and legal historians critically discuss this assumption from a theoretical point of view as well as from the perspective of their respective fields of research. The result is a multifaceted range of ideas on the significance and possible future of two disciplines that share, in addition to their traditional approach, a crisis of identity." |
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Comparative law.
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Law -- History.
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Droit comparé.
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Droit -- Histoire.
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General & world history.
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Legal history.
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Comparative law
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Law
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| Indexed Term |
Comparative law |
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legal rules |
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history of law |
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Legal History |
| Genre/Form |
History
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| Added Author |
Brutti, Massimo, editor.
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Somma, Alessandro, editor.
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| Other Form: |
3944773209 |
| ISBN |
9783944773216 (electronic bk.) |
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3944773217 (electronic bk.) |
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9783944773209 |
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3944773209 |
| Standard No. |
10.12946/gplh11 doi |
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AU@ 000063855145 |
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