Rethinking Comparative Law

Rethinking Comparative Law
Author: Glanert, Simone
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2021-10-19
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1786439476

Over the past decades, the field commonly known as comparative law has significantly expanded. The multiplication of journals, the proliferation of scholarship and the creation of courses or summer schools specifically devoted to comparative law attest to its increasing popularity. Within the Western legal tradition, a traditional, black-letter approach to law has proved particularly authoritative. This co-authored book rethinks comparative law’s mainstream model by providing both students and lawyers with the intellectual equipment allowing them to approach any foreign law in a more meaningful way.

Rethinking the Masters of Comparative Law

Rethinking the Masters of Comparative Law
Author: Annelise Riles
Publisher: Hart Publishing
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2001-10-09
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1841132896

This book brings a new generation of comparative lawyers together to reflect on the character of their discipline.

Rethinking International Law and Justice

Rethinking International Law and Justice
Author: Charles Sampford
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 383
Release: 2016-04-08
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1317064119

General principles of law have made, and are likely further to make, a significant contribution to our understanding of the constituent elements of global justice. Dealing extensively with global headline issues of peace, security and justice, this book explores justice arising in specific areas of international law, as well as underlying theories of justice from political science and international relations. With contributions from leading academics and practitioners, the book adopts an interdisciplinary approach. Covering issues such as international humanitarian law, and examining the significance of non-state actors for the development of international law, the collection concludes with the complex question of how best to rethink aspects of international justice. The lessons derived from this research will have wide implications for both developed and emerging nation-states in rethinking sensitive issues of international law and justice. As such, this book will be of interest to academics and practitioners interested in international law, environmental law, human rights, ethics, international relations and political theory.

Rethinking Legal Reasoning

Rethinking Legal Reasoning
Author: Geoffrey Samuel
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 374
Release: 2018-08-31
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1784712612

‘Rethinking’ legal reasoning seems a bold aim given the large amount of literature devoted to this topic. In this thought-provoking book, Geoffrey Samuel proposes a different way of approaching legal reasoning by examining the topic through the context of legal knowledge (epistemology). What is it to have knowledge of legal reasoning?

Comparative Law in a Global Context

Comparative Law in a Global Context
Author: Werner F. Menski
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 565
Release: 2006-03-30
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1139452711

Now in its second edition, this textbook presents a critical rethinking of the study of comparative law and legal theory in a globalising world, and proposes an alternative model. It highlights the inadequacies of current Western theoretical approaches in comparative law, international law, legal theory and jurisprudence, especially for studying Asian and African laws, arguing that they are too parochial and eurocentric to meet global challenges. Menski argues for combining modern natural law theories with positivist and socio-legal traditions, building an interactive, triangular concept of legal pluralism. Advocated as the fourth major approach to legal theory, this model is applied in analysing the historical and conceptual development of Hindu law, Muslim law, African laws and Chinese law.

Rethinking the Law School

Rethinking the Law School
Author: Carel Stolker
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 471
Release: 2014-12-11
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1107073898

Written by a former dean, this book offers a unique understanding of challenges facing legal education, research, publishing and governance.

Comparative Law as Critique

Comparative Law as Critique
Author: Günter Frankenberg
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2016-04-29
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1785363948

Presenting a critique of conventional methods in comparative law, this book argues that, for comparative law to qualify as a discipline, comparatists must reflect on how and why they make comparisons. Günter Frankenberg discusses not only methods and theories, but also the ethical implications and the politics of comparative law in bringing out the different dimensions of the discipline. Comparative Law as Critique offers various approaches that turn against the academic discourse of comparative law, including analysis of a widespread spirit of innocence in terms of method, and critique of human rights narratives. It also examines how courts negotiate differences between cases regarding Muslim veiling. The incisive critiques and comparisons in this book will be of essential reading for comparatists working in legal education and research, as well as students of comparative law and scholars in comparative anthropology and social sciences.

Rethinking Comparative Cultural Sociology

Rethinking Comparative Cultural Sociology
Author: Michèle Lamont
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 400
Release: 2000-12-11
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780521787949

This book provides a powerful new theoretical framework for understanding cross-national cultural differences. Researchers from France and America present eight comparative case studies to demonstrate how the people of these two different cultures mobilize national "repertoires of evaluation" to make judgments about politics, economics, morals and aesthetics. This approach goes beyond essentialist models of national character to compare varying attitudes on topics ranging from racism and sexual harrassment to identity politics, publishing, journalism, the arts and the environment. The book will appeal to sociologists, political scientists and anthropologists alike.

Rethinking Rape Law

Rethinking Rape Law
Author: Vanessa Munro
Publisher: Routledge Cavendish
Total Pages: 347
Release: 2010
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0415550270

"A GlassHouse book."--T.p.

Rethinking US Election Law

Rethinking US Election Law
Author: Steven Mulroy
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 176
Release:
Genre: Election law
ISBN: 1788117514

Recent U.S. elections have defied nationwide majority preference at the White House, Senate, and House levels. This work of interdisciplinary scholarship explains how “winner-take-all” and single-member district elections make this happen, and what can be done to repair the system. Proposed reforms include the National Popular Vote interstate compact (presidential elections); eliminating the Senate filibuster; and proportional representation using Ranked Choice Voting for House, state, and local elections.