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Description

1. xxvii, 401 pages; 25 cm

Summary

1. Previous edition, 1st, published in 2000.

Subject

1. Comparative law
2. Customary law
3. Legal polycentricity
4. Comparative law
5. Customary law
6. Legal polycentricity
7. Rechtsstelsels
8. Rechtsontwikkeling
9. Rechtsvergelijking
10. law
11. legal system
12. tradition
13. cross cultural analysis
14. legal theory
15. institutional framework
16. comparative law
17. sources of law
18. customary law
19. civil law
20. religion
21. Islamic law
22. Prawo > historia
23. Civil law systems
24. Droit comparé
25. Droit coutumier
26. Pluralisme juridique
27. droit
28. système juridique
29. analyse transculturelle
30. théorie juridique
31. cadre institutionnel
32. droit comparé
33. sources du droit
34. droit coutumier
35. droit civil
36. droit islamique
37. derecho
38. régimen jurídico
39. tradición
40. análisis transcultural
41. teoría legal
42. organización institucional
43. derecho comparado
44. fuentes del delrecho
45. derecho consuetudinario
46. derecho civil
47. religión
48. derecho islámico

Genre/Form

1. customaries.
2. Customary laws
3. Customary laws.
4. Lois coutumières.

Contents

1. 1. A theory of tradition? The changing presence of the past -- 2. Between traditions: identity, persuasion and survival -- 3. A chthonic legal tradition: to recycle the world -- 4. A talmudic legal tradition: the perfect author -- 5. A civil law tradition: the centrality of the person -- 6. An Islamic legal tradition: the law of a later revelation -- 7. A common law tradition: the ethic of adjudication -- 8. A Hindu legal tradition: the law as king, but which law? -- 9. An Asian legal tradition: make it new (with Marx?) -- 10. Reconciling legal traditions: sustainable diversity in law.

Owning institution

1. Princeton University Library

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.