Comparative law : an introduction / edited by Vivian Grosswald Curran.
2002
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Title
Comparative law : an introduction / edited by Vivian Grosswald Curran.
Published
Durham, N.C. : Carolina Academic Press, [2002]
Copyright
©2002
Call Number
K559 .C65 2002
Former Call Number
Comp 200 C738 2002
ISBN
0890897301
Description
ix, 140 pages ; 23 cm.
System Control No.
(OCoLC)49968199
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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Table of Contents
Contributors
I
Introduction
3
II
Comparative Law in the United States: The Second Half of the Twentieth Century
7
A Universalist Tradition
7
An Example
23
III
Comparative Law as Translation
31
Intercultural Understanding
31
Translation's Alchemy
38
IV
Comparison by Cultural Immersion
47
The Nature and Necessity of Comparison
47
Expanding Our Imagination of Legal Constructs
59
Cultural Contexts of Death and Suicide
79
V
Ought versus Is: A Challenge to Comparative Legal Analysis
87
The Struggle to Define Law
87
VI
The Globalized Future
99
The Encounter of Legal Cultures in Negotiating a Multilateral Treaty
99
The Encounter of Legal Cultures in Judicial Applications of a Multilateral Treaty
113
VII
Future Directions of Comparative Law
117
Truths Without Truth
117
Acknowledgments
129
Index of Names
131
Index of Words
135