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Title
Rethinking the masters of comparative law / edited by Annelise Riles.
Published
Oxford ; Portland, Or. : Hart, 2001.
Call Number
K561 .R48 2001
Former Call Number
Comp 035 R314 2001
ISBN
1841132896
184113290X (pbk.)
184113290X (pbk.)
Description
xii, 262 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)47356544
Note
"Essays ... first presented at the second annual faculty conference of the Northwestern University School of Law in March, 2000"--Acknowledgments.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references.
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Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
Introduction / Annelise Riles
1
Pt. I
Founding Moments
1Montesquieu: The specter of despotism and the origins of comparative law / Robert Launay
22
2Max Weber and the uncertainties of categorical comparative law / Ahmed A. White
40
Pt. II
The Critique of Classicism
3Rethinking Hermann Kantorowicz: Free law, American legal realism and the legacy of anti-formalism / Vivian Grosswald Curran
66
4Encountering amateurism: John Henry Wigmore and the uses of American Formalism / Annelise Riles
94
Pt. III
The Science of Modernization
5Nobushige Hozumi: A skillful transplanter of Western legal thought into Japanese soil / Hitoshi Aoki
129
6Sanhuri, and the historical origins of comparative law in the Arab World (or how sometimes losing your Asalah can be good for you) / Amr Shalakany
152
7Sculpting the agenda of comparative law: Ernst Rabel and the facade of language / David J. Gerber
190
Pt. IV
Mid-Century Pragmatism
8Rene David: At the head of the legal family / Jorge L. Esquirol
212
9The Comparative jurisprudence of Schlesinger and Sacco: A Study in legal influence / Ugo Mattei
238
Index
257