Comparative law in global perspective : essays in celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the SOAS Law Department / edited by Ian Edge.
2000
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Title
Comparative law in global perspective : essays in celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the SOAS Law Department / edited by Ian Edge.
Published
Ardsley, NY : Transnational Publishers, [2000]
Copyright
©2000
Call Number
K561 .C657 2000
Former Call Number
Comp 312 C7385 2000
ISBN
1571051716
Description
xiii, 433 pages ; 24 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)46771126
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references.
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Essays in celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the SDAS law Department
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Table of Contents
Preface / James S. Read
I
Comparative Law in Global Perspective
1Comparative Law in Global Perspective / Ian Edge
3
2Comparative Law and Legal Theory: The Country and Western Tradition / William Twining
21
II
Theoretical Considerations
3The Hunting of the Snark or the Quest for the Holy Grail: The Search for Customary Law / Anthony Allott
79
4Comparative Public Law: A Neglected Discipline? / Andrew Harding
101
5From Imperial Domination to Bhaji on the Beach: Fifty Years of South Asian Laws at SOAS / Werner Menski
121
6Rhodes, Arakan, Grand Cayman: Three Versions of Offshore / Andrew Huxley
145
III
Practical Approaches
7Law in Africa: Back to the Future? / James S. Read
173
8The Best Laid Schemes o'Mice an' Men: The Diaspora of Town and Country Planning Laws in Africa and Asia / Patrick McAuslan
199
9Succession Law Reform and Land Tenure in Zimbabwe / Simon Coldham
225
10The Law-Making Functions of the Chinese Judiciary: Filling Holes in the Civil Law / Anthony R. Dicks
241
11Going to Court in Weihaiwei: Some Support for Civil Litigation in the Qing / Carol G. S. Tan
271
12Islam and Constitutional Development in Pakistan / Martin Lau
293
13Panacea or Chimera: Islamic Law Reform over the Last Fifty Years / Ian Edge
325
14Amnesty for Gross Violations of Human Rights in South Africa: A Better Way of Dealing with the Past? / Catherine Jenkins
345
15Ethnic Minorities and the European Convention on Human Rights: A View from the UK / Prakash Shah
387
16The International Law of Development: A Millennium Subject or a Relic of the Twentieth Century? / Peter Slinn
411