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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      June 2012
      February 2009
      ISBN:
      9780511807374
      9780521505932
      9780521738095
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511807374
      Dimensions:
      (247 x 174 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      1.2kg, 544 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (247 x 174 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      1.07kg, 544 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Law: General Interest, Legal History, Law, Jurisprudence
      Series:
      Law in Context
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    Subjects:
    Law: General Interest, Legal History, Law, Jurisprudence
    Series:
    Law in Context
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    Book description

    This book explores how globalisation influences the understanding of law. Adopting a broad concept of law and a global perspective, it critically reviews mainstream Western traditions of academic law and legal theory. Its central thesis is that most processes of so-called 'globalisation' take place at sub-global levels and that a healthy cosmopolitan discipline of law should encompass all levels of social relations and the legal ordering of these relations. It illustrates how the mainstream Western canon of jurisprudence needs to be critically reviewed and extended to take account of other legal traditions and cultures. Written by the one of the foremost scholars in the field, this important work presents an exciting alternative vision of jurisprudence. It challenges the traditional canon of legal theorists and guides the reader through a field undergoing seismic changes in the era of globalisation. This is essential reading for all students of jurisprudence and legal theory.

    Reviews

    'With general exhortation and detailed illustration, this book promotes the skills and techniques of municipal jurisprudence and challenges its complacencies, through making the case for a global perspective on law.'

    Andrew Haplin - Swansea University

    'Having long advocated a contextual appreciation of law, in General Jurisprudence, William Twining insists that we cannot understand law without taking a more cosmopolitan approach - an approach that moves beyond Western legal traditions to embrace the many different practices of social ordering. This is vintage Twining, clear and compelling while always challenging.'

    Roger Brownsword - King's College London

    '… General Jurisprudence is at once a call to action about reorienting how the idea of jurisprudence should be pursues in today's globalized environment, and the reflection of an exemplary career as a legal scholar.'

    Source: Journal of Law and Society

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