1st Edition

The Negative Turn in Comparative Law

By Pierre Legrand Copyright 2025
356 Pages
by Routledge

356 Pages
by Routledge

356 Pages
by Routledge

This book’s essays aim subversively and resolutely to replace the hegemonic discursive frame governing comparative law. Beyond harnessing negative critique to resist the orthodoxy’s self-assured cognitive assumptions, at once unexamined and indefensible, the argument mobilizes negativity as an empowering idea, a resource towards the displacement of the brand of comparative law that has been... Read more

I Rots II No method III The set of universal human rights is empty IV Economics’s number V The invention of elsewhere VI The weft of the foreign – and Blood’s ‘ever not quite’ VII Appreciation

Biography

Pierre Legrand teaches comparative law at the Sorbonne.