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Negative Comparative Law

A Strong Programme for Weak Thought

Pierre Legrand author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:9th Jun '22

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A critical manifesto making the case for a radically alternative approach to the theory and practice of comparative law.

Negative Comparative Law presents a critical manifesto for a radically alternative approach to the theory and practice of comparative law. Harnessing insights from a range of disciplinary discourses, this book advocates for comparative law's rejection of its dominant epistemology and the investigation of the study of foreignness anew.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.

'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

ISBN: 9781316511978

Dimensions: 235mm x 156mm x 32mm

Weight: 840g

352 pages