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- Diritto: storia e comparazione: Nuovi propositi per un binomio antico
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- 2018
- Published by: Max Planck Institute for European Legal History
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Comparative law and the history of law are traditionally devoted to expanding the context of legal rules and legal institutions. Comparison involves history, as the well-known motto proclaims, but history also involves comparison. Both disciplines are in fact interested in deepening the space-time coordinates of law as a social phenomenon, which means that they take up a critical approach to their object of study. In recent years, this trait is increasingly coming into conflict with the tendency to present law as a mere technocratic instrument for organizing societies. As a result of the »end of history« discourse, the Western economic and political order has become a definitive point of reference worldwide, with law scholars charged with identifying best practices to enhance their efficiency. A group of comparative lawyers and legal historians critically discuss this assumption from a theoretical point of view as well as from the perspective of their respective fields of research. The result is a multifaceted range of ideas on the significance and possible future of two disciplines that share, in addition to their traditional approach, a crisis of identity.
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- Title Page, Copyright Page
- pp. i-v
- Introduzione
- pp. 1-4
- Law and history: some introductory remarks
- pp. 187-206
- Diritto comparato e diritto globale
- pp. 207-218
- Sulla Comparative legal history e dintorni
- pp. 245-266
- Contributors
- pp. 589-596
- Global Perspectives on Legal History
- pp. 597-601
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ISBN
9783944773216
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9783944773209
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OCLC
1048896993
Pages
595
Launched on MUSE
2020-05-09
Language
Italian
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Yes
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