1st Edition

The Ways of Negative Comparative Law

By Pierre Legrand Copyright 2026
432 Pages
by Routledge

432 Pages
by Routledge

This book’s essays want to provide the intellectually-sophisticated and ethically-sensitive comparatist with the equipment that will stand comparison in optimal epistemic stead as one embarks upon the journey of elicitation and inscription towards foreign law. Negative comparative law argues that foreign law materializes as a cultural statement: every foreign law-text is encultured. And it holds... Read more

I The fair foot and the weak mind; II The institutionalization of it all; III Wrong words and the wrighting; IV My talk at Harvard; V Selfness exorbitant; VI The foreign preponderates; VII Comparative contraventions; VIII Animal law, comparatively speaking; IX A very partial glossary; X Appreciation Index of matters Index of names

Biography

Pierre Legrand teaches comparative law at the Sorbonne.