1st Edition

Comparative Law and the Task of Negative Critique

By Pierre Legrand Copyright 2023
316 Pages
by Routledge

316 Pages
by Routledge

316 Pages
by Routledge

This book’s essays seek to cleanse comparative law of some of the epistemic detritus it has been collecting and that has been cluttering its theory and practice to the point where this flotsam has effectively stultified ‘good’ comparison. While a critique would pursue adjustments to the prevailing model, this text’s negative critique seeks a much more radical refurbishment as it utters an... Read more

I Safing Difference II Budé, Baudouin, Bodin et les autres III Beyond Plethoraphobia, Against Epistemicide IV Legal Relativism, or ‘One of Us Cannot Be Wrong’ V More Difference – The Case of Desire VI Appreciation

Biography

Pierre Legrand teaches comparative law at the Sorbonne.