On Common Laws

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H. Patrick Glenn (Peter M. Laing Professor of Law, Faculty of Law, McGill University)

On Common Laws

H. Patrick Glenn (Peter M. Laing Professor of Law, Faculty of Law, McGill University)

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Oxford University Press
01 December 2005

Common law; Comparative law; Legal history; Laws of Specific jurisdictions

The concept of common law has been one of the most important conceptual instruments of the western legal tradition, but it has been neglected by legal theory and legal history for the last two centuries.

There were many common laws in Europe, including what is known in English as the common law, yet they have never previously been studied as a general phenomenon.

Until the nineteenth century, the common laws of Europe lived in constant interaction with the particular laws which prevailed in their territories, and with one another. Common law was the main instrument of conciliation of laws which were drawn from different sources, though applicable on a given territory.

Claims of universality could be, and were, reconciled with claims of particularity. Nineteenth and twentieth century legal theory taught that law was the exclusive product of the state, yet common laws continued to function on a world-wide basis throughout the entire period of legal nationalism.

As national legal exclusivity is increasingly challenged by the process of globalization, the concept of common law can be looked to once again as a means of conceptualization and justification of law beyond the state, while still supporting state and other local forms of normativity.

By: H. Patrick Glenn (Peter M. Laing Professor of Law Faculty of Law McGill University)
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 242mm, Width: 161mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 426g
ISBN: 9780199287543
ISBN 10: 0199287546
Pages: 176
Publication Date: 01 December 2005
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

H. Patrick Glenn is the Peter M. Laing Professor of Law, McGill University and a former Director of McGill's Institute of Comparative Law. He is a Member of the International Academy of Comparative Law and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. He has been a Bora Laskin Fellow in Human Rights Research, a Killam Research Fellow, and a Visiting Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. His book Legal Traditions of the World (Oxford University Press, 2nd ed., 2004) won the Grand Prize of the International Academy of Comparative Law.