This work brings together eight linked essays which make the case for a revival of general
jurisprudence in response to the challenges of globalisation, explores how far the heritage …

This book explores how globalisation influences the understanding of law. Adopting a broad
concept of law and a global perspective, it critically reviews mainstream Western traditions of …

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William Twining Abstract This paper sets out a view of a General Jurisprudence that is needed …

The legal version of post-modernism has not failed to challenge comparative law. It points
out that, traditionally, comparatists have participated in a project of objectivity, universalism …

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Writing today about Transnational Law is a different task from what it was only a few years
ago (Zumbansen, 2006). Arguably, that could be said about writing on any other aspect of …

Legal inquiries into the future of law in an era of globalisation are regularly confronted with
accounts of law's alleged weakness to extend itself effectively beyond national, jurisdictional …

Uwe Kischel's comprehensive treatise on comparative law offers a critical introduction to the
central tenets of comparative legal scholarship. The first part of the book is dedicated to …

1. Italo Calvino, Mr Palomar (1983, trs. William Weaver, Harcourt Brace, 1985), 1. 1. 1.,'Mr
Palomar on the Beach; Reading a Wave'. 2. id. 6 3. id. 8. Mr Palomar is an intellectually …

The topic that Diego Lopez-Medina asked me to address in this essay, prepared initially for
a conference on globalization held in the three law faculties of Bogota, Colombia, in April …