Negative comparative law : a strong programme for weak thought / Pierre Legrand.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Legrand, Pierre, 1959- author.

Series:

Cambridge studies in international and comparative law ; 167.

Cambridge studies in international and comparative law ; 167

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Comparative law.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 466 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom : New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2022.

Summary:

Written under the sign of Beckett, this book addresses comparative law's commitment to the deterritorialization of the legal and its attendant claim for the normative relevance of foreign law locally in the fabrication of statutory determinations, judicial opinions, or academic reflections. Wanting to withstand the law's persistent tendency towards nationalist retrenchment and counter comparative law's institutional marginalization, the fifteen essays at hand impart radical and discerning intellectual equipment in order to foster the valorization of the legally foreign and the comparative motion. In particular, the critique informing this manifesto examines pre-eminent topics like culture and difference, understanding and translatability, objectivity and truth, invention and tracing. Harnessing insights from a range of disciplinary discourses, this book contends that comparatists must boldly desist from their field's dominant epistemology and embrace a practice much better attuned to the study of foreignness.

Contents:

Raising my game

To fail better

Sniffing the wind

Onomastics, very briefly

More comparative law

Borges's challenge

Outings

For indiscipline

Decoloniality

The same as the different

Comparatism is culturalism

This comparatist, even

The negative

The negative, applied

My equipment

Appreciation.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Jun 2022).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Legrand, Pierre Negative Comparative Law

ISBN:

1-009-06320-0

1-009-05191-1

1-009-06340-5