Comparative Law : Mixes, Movements, and Metaphors.

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Contributors -- Chapter 1 'Of mixes, movements, and metaphors': Esin Örücü's critical comparative law -- Mixes -- Movements and metaphors -- Critical comparative law -- Conclusion -- Chapter 2 Island, intersection, or in-between? Legal hybridity and diffusion in the Seychellois legal tradition, c. 1715-1950 -- Introduction -- Laws and norms -- Conventions and comparisons -- Traditions and colonies -- Revolutions and capitulations -- Union Jacks and juries -- Mixité and métissage -- Conclusion -- Selected bibliography -- Chapter 3 Legislating for customary land tenure: a comparative query -- Introduction -- The colonial and post-colonial experience -- Customary land in South Africa -- Customary land in the Pacific -- Judicial intervention in land -- Confronting the dilemma -- Conclusion -- Selected bibliography -- Chapter 4 Fairness and diversity in the South African law of contract -- Introduction -- Diversity: the meaning and significance of ubuntu -- Fairness: debates and challenges in the South African law of contract -- Synthesis: ubuntu and promoting fairness in the South African law of contract -- Conclusion -- Selected bibliography -- Chapter 5 On kites and ships: climate changes in comparative law and judicial navigation -- Introduction: kites, ships, and navigational skills -- The relevance of comparative analysis and legal pluralism -- The power of memory and the strength of convictions and experience -- The changing climate for the movement of ships and kites -- Memory power and diversity management in South Asian laws -- India's national struggle over pluralist sustainability -- Conclusions -- Selected bibliography -- Chapter 6 On lifelong and fixed-term marriage: a study in estrangement -- Introduction.

Finding the origins of lifelong marriage -- Temporary marriage in Islamic law: nikah mutah -- Testing the waters: proposals to introduce fixed-term marriage -- From wedlock to wedlease? -- Conclusions -- Selected bibliography -- Chapter 7 What is the role of norms and values in the reception of law? -- Introduction -- Concepts of law -- Legitimation of state power according to Weber -- Models of man -- The law cannot be applied if rationality is ignored -- Illustration: rape within a marriage -- Illustration: patent law -- Conclusion -- Selected bibliography -- Chapter 8 The Influence of the trias politica of Montesquieu on the first Dutch Constitution -- Introduction -- The creation of the Batavian Republic -- The first Dutch Constitution of 1798 and the influence of Montesquieu -- Epilogue and conclusion -- Selected bibliography -- Chapter 9 A legal transplant: French law in Dutch shallow waters -- Introduction -- Alluvio in several legal systems -- Roman law -- French law -- After the Revolution -- The Code Civil -- Ancient Dutch law -- Ancient law in the province of Groningen -- The Netherlands between 1811 and 1838 -- The practice in Groningen in the nineteenth century -- The solution of 1870 -- Conclusion -- Selected bibliography -- Chapter 10 The rule of law in Turkey: two steps forward, one step back -- Introduction -- The Development of the rule of law in Turkey -- Two steps forward -- One step back -- Actions to be taken -- Conclusion -- Selected bibliography -- Chapter 11 The method of comparative law reconsidered in the light of legal epistemology and the reception of Roman law -- Introduction -- How do we know the law? -- How do we know customs and customary law? -- How do we know and recognise foreign legal rules? -- Remarks on the methodologies of legal history and comparative law -- Conclusions -- Selected bibliography.

Chapter 12 Hybrid law and culinary metaphor - empty coquetting or something else? -- Introduction -- About macro-comparative law -- Mixed legal systems and culinary metaphor -- Conclusion -- Selected bibliography -- Index.

This book discusses a number of important themes in comparative law: legal metaphors and methodology, the movements of legal ideas and institutions and the mixity they produce, and marriage, an area of law in which culture - or clashes of legal and public cultures - may be particularly evident.

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