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OverviewWritten 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Pierre LegrandPublisher: Cambridge University Press Imprint: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 9781009054867ISBN 10: 1009054864 Pages: 485 Publication Date: 20 June 2024 Audience: College/higher education , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Not yet available, will be POD ![]() This item is yet to be released. You can pre-order this item and we will dispatch it to you upon it's release. This is a print on demand item which is still yet to be released. Table of ContentsReviews'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. Part author biography, part treatise on method, part satire, and part harangue, the 15 essays comprising the volume cohere lucently and vividly around a critical desire to preserve the ethical sensibility of the foreign, and a crescendo of negative analyses of the addiction to similarity that marks the orthodoxy in comparative legal scholarship.' Peter Goodrich, Journal of Law and Society Author InformationPierre Legrand teaches comparative law at the Sorbonne. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |