Legrand Negative Comparative Law

A Strong Programme for Weak Thought
Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-1-009-06340-1
Verlag: Cambridge University Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 167

Reihe: Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Legrand, Pierre

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsvergleichung
• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht Internationales Öffentliches Recht, Völkerrecht, Internationale Organisationen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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.

Über Autor(innen)

Legrand, Pierre
Pierre Legrand teaches comparative law at the Sorbonne.