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Author:   Annelise Riles
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Hart Publishing
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.530kg
ISBN:  

9781841132891

ISBN 10:   1841132896
Pages:   274
Publication Date:   08 October 2001
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Replaced By:   9781841132907
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Part 1 Founding moments: Montesquieu - the specter of despotism and the origins of comparative law, Robert Launay; Max Weber and the uncertainties of categorical comparative law, Ahmed A. White. Part 2 The critique of classicism: rethinking Hermann Kantorowicz - free law, American legal realism and the legacy of anti-formalism, Vivian Grosswald Curran; encountering amateurism - John Henry Wigmore and the uses of American formalism, Annelise Riles. Part 3 The science of modernization: Nobushige Hozumi - a skillful transplanter of Western legal thought into Japanese soil, Hitoshi Aoki; Sanhuri, and the historical origins of comparative law in the Arab world (or how sometimes losing your Asalah can be good for you), Amr Shalakany; sculpting the agenda of comparative law - Ernst Rabel and the fa?ade of language, David J. Gerber. Part 4 Mid-century pragmatism: Rene David - at the head of the legal family, Jorge L. Esquirol; the comparative jurisprudence of Schlesinger and Sacco - a study in legal influence, Ugo Mattei.

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Into this muddled field comes Annelise Riles edited volume, Rethinking the Masters of Comparative Law, which continues her highly original work in breaking open the stultified paradigms of comparative law. In short, Riles and her collaborators have put together an interesting intellectual history in a post-modern mode Tom Ginsburg The Law and Politics Book Review October 2001 ...ce petit volume presente une vue originale de l'evolution de la science comparative. A. V. Revue Internationale de droit Compare October 2001 ...the book offers a fresh and sophisticated picture of the discipline and its future. Book Review Editor Tilburg Foreign Law Review April 2003 ...consisting of excellent essays on various key figures, it represents an excellent study on the historiography of comparative law as an academic discipline The book will thus serve as prime reading for anyone who wants to understand comparative law as a discipline. All studies in the book are of truly superior quality, and reading them together gives a good picture of events in the history of comparative law, and of its present. Ralf Michaels German Law Journal May 2003

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Annelise Riles is a Professor of Law at Cornell Law School.

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