Negative Comparative Law
A Strong Programme for Weak Thought
Published on 25. May 2022
488 pages
978-1-009-06340-1 (ISBN)
Description
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.
Reviews / Votes
'Impeccable scholarship, inimitable style, and relentless critique are the hallmarks of nigh-on three decades of work that culminate in Pierre Legrand's unique and remarkable syntagm 'Negative Comparative Law'.' Peter Goodrich, Journal of Law and SocietyMore details
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
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Worked examples or Exercises
File size
3,99 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-009-06340-1 (9781009063401)
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Content
1. Raising my game - To fail better; 2. Sniffing the wind; 3. Onomastics, very briefly; 4. More comparative law; 5. Borges's challenge; 6. Outings; 7. For indiscipline; 8. Decoloniality; 9. The same as the different; 10. Comparatism is culturalism; 11. This comparatist, even; 12. The negative; 13. The negative, applied; 14. My equipment; 15. Appreciation.
