Rethinking the masters of comparative law / edited by Annelise Riles.

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Other Authors: Riles, Annelise
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; Portland, Or. : Hart Pub., 2001.
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Table of Contents:
  • Pt. 1. Founding moments
  • Montesquieu : the specter of depotism and the origins of comparative law / Robert Launay
  • Max Weber and the uncertainties of categorical comparative law / Ahmed A. White
  • Pt. II. 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
  • Pt. III. The science of modernization
  • Nobushige Huzumi : a skill 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 facade of language / David J. Gerber
  • Pt. IV. Mid-Century pragmatism
  • René David : at the head of the head of the legal family / Jorge L. Esquirol
  • The comparative jurisprudence of Schlesinger and Sacco : a study in legal influence / Ugo Mattei.