Glenn's On Common Laws

On Common Laws
H. Patrick Glenn

Now available in paperback at $40 | Hardcopy edition published in 2005
176 pages | Oxford University Press, July 2007
ISBN13: 978-0-19-922765-5
ISBN10: 0-19-922765-9

Description: The idea of law as being the product of states dominated the legal theories of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Globalization has challenged many of the notions which underlie this idea, and has highlighted the need for a new theoretical picture of the law. This book argues that the classic concept of common law is a means of reconciling the law of the state and the many forms of transnational law which may complement it. Features

• Weaves together legal history, legal theory and comparative law in a groundbreaking analysis of the history and continued importance of common laws throughout Europe and the wider world
• Presents Patrick Glenn's original conception of law which reconciles the idea of international legal cultures with the influence of long-standing traditions and state structures
• Offers a powerful corrective to state-centered theories of law and law-making that have dominated legal theory since the nineteenth century