Legal Barbarians

Identity, Modern Comparative Law and the Global South

AvDaniel Bonilla Maldonado

Inbunden, Engelska, 2021

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Beskrivning

In this novel and unorthodox historical analysis of modern comparative law, Daniel Bonilla Maldonado explores the connections between modern comparative law and the identity of the modern legal subject. Narratives created by modern comparative law shed light on the role played by law in the construction of modern individual and collective identities. This study first examines the relationship between identity, law, and narrative. Second, it explores the moments of emergence and transformation of this area of law: instrumental comparative studies, comparative legislative studies, and comparative law as an autonomous discipline. Finally, it analyzes the theoretical perspectives that question the narrative created by modern comparative law: Third World Approaches to International Law, postcolonial studies of law, and critical comparative law. For lawyers and legal scholars, this study brings a nuanced understanding of the connections between the theory of modern comparative law and contemporary practical legal and political issues.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2021-09-09
Mått:158 x 235 x 17 mm
Vikt:430 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law
Antal sidor:198
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9781108833622

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Daniel Bonilla Maldonado is Full Professor of Law at Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia. He has held a Fulbright Fellowship and visiting positions at, among others, Yale Law School, Sciences Po-Paris School of Law and Universidad de Buenos Aires. He is the editor of Constitutionalism of the Global South (Cambridge, 2013).

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'… Legal Barbarians is an important contribution to the discipline of comparative law … The book is also very well referenced, constituting an excellent bibliographic resource for the critical comparative jurist. Finally, it is also very pleasant to read. Concentrated in less than 200 pages - which is rare - it makes us think and travel thanks to its sometimes poetic analogies and images …' Eugénie Mérieau, Droit et Société (from French)

Innehållsförteckning

1. Introduction; 2. The legal identity of the global south narrative and comparative law; 3. Comparative instrumental studies Montesquieu, geography and law; 4. Comparative legislative studies H. S. Maine, history, progress, and the comparative method; 5. Comparative law as an autonomous discipline legal taxonomies and families; 6. The critical academic of law: resistance and emancipation.