ISBN:
9783944773216
Language:
Italian
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (608 p.)
Series Statement:
Global Perspectives on Legal History
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
340.2
Keywords:
Comparative law
;
Law History
;
General & world history
;
Legal history
;
Droit comparé
;
Droit - Histoire
;
Comparative law
;
Law
;
History
;
Comparative law
;
legal rules
;
history of law
;
Legal History
Abstract:
"Comparative law and the history of law are traditionally devoted to expanding the context of legal rules and legal institutions. Comparison involves history, as the well-known motto proclaims, but history also involves comparison. Both disciplines are in fact interested in deepening the space-time coordinates of law as a social phenomenon, which means that they take up a critical approach to their object of study. In recent years, this trait is increasingly coming into conflict with the tendency to present law as a mere technocratic instrument for organizing societies. As a result of the »end of history« discourse, the Western economic and political order has become a definitive point of reference worldwide, with law scholars charged with identifying best practices to enhance their efficiency. A group of comparative lawyers and legal historians critically discuss this assumption from a theoretical point of view as well as from the perspective of their respective fields of research. The result is a multifaceted range of ideas on the significance and possible future of two disciplines that share, in addition to their traditional approach, a crisis of identity."
Note:
Italian
,
English
,
Spanish; Castilian
