TY  - BOOK
AU  - Somma, Alessandro
ED  - Brutti, Massimo
AB  - "Comparative law and the history of law are traditionally devoted to expanding the context of legal rules and legal institutions. Comparison involves history, as the well-known motto proclaims, but history also involves comparison. Both disciplines are in fact interested in deepening the space-time coordinates of law as a social phenomenon, which means that they take up a critical approach to their object of study.  In recent years, this trait is increasingly coming into conflict with the tendency to present law as a mere technocratic instrument for organizing societies. As a result of the »end of history« discourse, the Western economic and political order has become a definitive point of reference worldwide, with law scholars charged with identifying best practices to enhance their efficiency.  A group of comparative lawyers and legal historians critically discuss this assumption from a theoretical point of view as well as from the perspective of their respective fields of research. The result is a multifaceted range of ideas on the significance and possible future of two disciplines that share, in addition to their traditional approach, a crisis of identity."
DO  - 10.12946/gplh11
ID  - OAPEN ID: 1004837
ID  - OAPEN ID: OCN: 1100526122
ID  - OAPEN ID: http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/25257
KW  - Comparative law
KW  - legal rules
KW  - history of law
KW  - Legal History
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/25257/1/GPLH_11.pdf
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/25257/1/GPLH_11.pdf
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/25257/1/GPLH_11.pdf
LA  - Italian
LA  - English
LA  - Spanish; Castilian
LK  - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/39021
PB  - Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory
PP  - Frankfurt am Main
PY  - 2018
SN  - 9783944773216
TI  - Diritto: storia e comparazione : Nuovi propositi per un binomio antico
ER  - 
