On Common Laws

by H. Patrick Glenn

Overview

The idea of law as being the product of states dominated the legal theories of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Globalization has challenged many of the notions which underlie this idea, and has highlighted the need for a new theoretical picture of the law. This book argues that the classic concept of common law is a means of reconciling the law of the state and the many forms of transnational law which may complement it.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780199227655
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	07/26/2007
Edition description:	Revised ed.
Pages:	176
Product dimensions:	9.10(w) x 6.10(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

H. Patrick Glenn is the Peter M. Laing Professor of Law, McGill University and a former Director of McGill's Institute of Comparative Law. He is a Member of the International Academy of Comparative Law and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. He has been a Bora Laskin Fellow in Human Rights Research, a Killam Research Fellow, and a Visiting Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. His book Legal Traditions of the World (Oxford University Press, 2nd ed., 2004) won the Grand Prize of the International Academy of Comparative Law.

Table of Contents

Preface1. The Common Laws of Europe2. The Common Laws of the World3. On the Relations of Common LawsSome Concluding Remarks