Contributions

  • Somma , Alessandro - Contributor
  • Aragoneses, Alfons - Contributor
  • Augusti, Eliana - Contributor
  • Calore, Antonello - Contributor
  • Casabona, Salvatore - Contributor
and 19 more
  • dalla Massara, Tommaso - Contributor
  • Duve, Thomas - Contributor
  • Ferrari, Giuseppe Franco - Contributor
  • Frosini, Tommaso Edoardo - Contributor
  • Grondona, Mauro - Contributor
  • Lacchè,, Luigi - Contributor
  • Montenari, Pier Giuseppe - Contributor
  • Mostacci, Edmondo - Contributor
  • Nicolini, Matteo - Contributor
  • Nuzzo, Luigi - Contributor
  • Pascuzzi, Giovanni - Contributor
  • Pavani, Giorgia - Contributor
  • Poggeschi, Giovanni - Contributor
  • Resta, Giorgio - Contributor
  • Scariglia, Roberto - Contributor
  • Serio, Mario - Contributor
  • Sordi, Bernardo - Contributor
  • Stolfi, Emanuele - Contributor
  • Zeno-Zencovich, Vincenzo - Contributor

Publication

Max Planck Institute for European Legal History, Frankfurt am Main, No place, unknown, or undetermined

Language

Italian

Word Count

152,000 words, Guess

Page Count

608 pages

Identifiers

  • Open LibraryOL28354528M
  • ISBN-139783944773209
  • ISBN-139783944773216
  • ISBN-103944773209
  • ISBN-103944773217

Description

"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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  • DirittoMax Planck Institute for European Legal History

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