Entanglements In Legal History: Conceptual Approaches

ISBN: 9783944773001 出版年：2014 页码：580 Duve, Thomas Max Planck Institute for European Legal History

Legal history presents a broad panorama of historical processes that trigger theoretical reflections on legal transfers and legal transplants and on the problem of the reception and assimilation of new laws. In this volume, legal historians across the globe reflect on their analytical traditions and present case studies in order to discuss how entangled histories of law can be understood, analyzed and written.In the first section of this volume, 'traditions of transnational legal history', the authors revisit specific achievements and shortcomings of legal historical research against the backdrop of postcolonial and global studies. Reflections on our own disciplinary traditions that reveal the path-dependencies include critical accounts on the tradition of 'european legal history', 'codification history', the emergence of 'hindu law', and the methodological aspects of comparative law.The four articles in the second section, 'empires and law', showcase entangled legal histories forged in imperial spaces.