Diritto: storia e comparazione : nuovi propositi per un binomio antico /
"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-...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | Italian English Spanish |
| Language Notes: | In Italian with 3 articles in English and 2 in Spanish. |
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Frankfurt am Main :
Max Planck Institute for European Legal History,
2018.
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| Series: | Global perspectives on legal history ;
v. 11. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | "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." |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9783944773216 3944773217 9783944773209 3944773209 |