Negative Comparative Law
Negative Comparative Law
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Written 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.
- Offers a sustained critique of mainstream theoretical postulates within comparative law
- Proposes a detailed alternative theoretical model to inform the practice of comparative law
- Presents a thoroughly critical and interdisciplinary exercise in legal theory
Reviews & endorsements
‘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’.’ Peter Goodrich, Journal of Law and Society
Product details
June 2024Paperback
9781009054867
485 pages
229 × 152 × 25 mm
0.696kg
Available
Table of Contents
- 1. Raising my game — To fail better
- 2. Sniffing the wind
- 3. Onomastics, very briefly
- 4. More comparative law
- 5. Borges's challenge
- 6. Outings
- 7. For indiscipline
- 8. Decoloniality
- 9. The same as the different
- 10. Comparatism is culturalism
- 11. This comparatist, even
- 12. The negative
- 13. The negative, applied
- 14. My equipment
- 15. Appreciation.
