Globalisation and Legal Theory

by William Twining

Overview

This work brings together eight linked essays which make the case for a revival of general jurisprudence in response to the challenges of globalisation, explores how far the heritage of Anglo-American jurisprudence and comparative law is adequate to meeting the challenges, and puts forward an agenda for general jurisprudence and comparative law, especially in the English-speaking world in the first ten or twenty years of the millennium. The book is traditional in focussing on the mainstream of Anglo-American intellectual heritage and moderately radical in identifying the need for rethinking basic issues and putting forward a series of provocative propositions as a basis for discussion.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521605946
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	03/01/2000
Series:	Law in Context
Pages:	296
Product dimensions:	5.43(w) x 8.46(h) x 0.75(d)

About the Author

William Twining is Research Professor of Law at University College London. Twining's Rethinking Evidence and Analysis of Evidence were co-published by Northwestern University Press.

Table of Contents

1. General and particular jurisprudence, three chapters in a story; 2. Globalisation and legal theory, some local implications; 3. Jeremy Bentham and general jurisprudence; 4. Other people's power, the bad man and English positivism; 5. Mapping law; 6. Globalization and comparative law - the Country and Western tradition; 7. Globalization, post-modernism and pluralism; Appendix: teaching about globalisation and law.

Editorial Reviews

"Twining applies his vast learning, and a wonderful imagination, to grapple fruitfully with some of the most complex issues raised by the rapid changes occurring today in law from the local to the global level. This is a fascinating and rewarding book." —Brian Z. Tamanaha, author of A General Jurisprudence of Law and Society



"Twining is one of the most consistently intelligent and interesting writers in English about a complex of issues concerning law, legal theory, lawyers, and law practice, legal scholarship, and legal education."

—John Griffiths, University of Groningen

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