Legal Traditions of the World

The late Professor Glenn taught and had research interests in the areas of comparative law, private international law, civil procedure and the legal professions.He was a former Director of the Institute of Comparative Law, McGill University. He was also a member of the Royal Society of Canada and the International Academy of Comparative Law and had been a Bora Laskin National Fellow in Human Rights Law, a Killam Research Fellow, and a Visiting Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford.

• 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 the later revelation ; 7. A common law tradition: the ethic of adjudication ; 8. A hindu legal tradition: the law as king, but which law? ; 9. A confucian legal tradition: make it new (with Marx?) ; 10. Reconciling legal traditions: sustainable diversity in law

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