The purpose of the text is to teach about law by focusing on contemporary legal systems within the framework of each culture. The text emphasizes the legal process in each of the four traditions by concentrating on the specific problems of inheritance, as an example of the definition of and response to crime; contracts as an example of economic decision making; and population planning as an example of personal rights and the allocation of power between judicial, bureaucratic, and religious institutions. For use in undergraduate anthropology courses as well as in advanced anthropology or comparative law courses.

Barton, Gibbs, Li, and Merryman's Law in Radically Different Cultures (American Casebook Series)

BARTON, JOHN

Merryman, John

Li, Victor

Gibbs Jr, James

Legal Theory & Systems

West Academic Publishing

Designed for the general reader, this is a concise history and analysis of the civil law tradition, which is dominant in most of Western Europe, all of Latin America, and many parts of Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. The second edition describes changes in civil law procedures sine the book was first published in 1969, and includes a new chapter on the future of civil law tradition.

The Civil Law Tradition: An Introduction to the Legal Systems of Western Europe and Latin America

Administrative Law

Stanford Univ Pr

Designed for the general reader, this is a concise history and analysis of the civil law tradition, which is dominant in most of Western Europe, all of Latin America, and many parts of Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. The second edition describes changes in civil law procedures sine the book was first published in 1969, and includes a new chapter on the future of civil law tradition.

Stanford University Press

The Civil Law Tradition, 3rd Edition: An Introduction to the Legal Systems of Europe and Latin America

Designed for the general reader and students of law, this is a concise history and analysis of the civil law tradition, which is dominant in most of Europe, all of Latin America, and many parts of Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. This new edition deals with recent significant events―such as the fall of the Soviet empire and the resulting precipitous decline of the socialist legal tradition―and their significance for the civil law tradition. The book also incorporates the findings of recent important literature on the legal cultures of civil law countries.

Pérez-Perdomo, Rogelio

Legal History

Designed for the general reader and students of law, this is a concise history and analysis of the civil law tradition, which is dominant in most of Europe, all of Latin America, and many parts of Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. This new edition deals with recent significant events—such as the fall of the Soviet empire and the resulting precipitous decline of the socialist legal tradition—and their significance for the civil law tradition. The book also incorporates the findings of recent important literature on the legal cultures of civil law countries.

History

Comparative Law is intended for use in law schools and history and political science departments with introductory courses in comparative law or civil law systems, as well as in European or world legal history. The historical perspective of Comparative Law introduces students to the family of legal systems common to Europe, Latin America, and East Asia. The book also introduces the discipline of comparative law, its scope, origins, objectives, and methods, while discussing the contemporary example of nation building (or law and development) and its limitations. 
 Comparative Law is distinguishable from other comparative law books by its relative de-emphasis of rules and related doctrine. It also has greater attention to the intellectual history, structure, professional actors, and processes that are characteristic of civil law systems.
The companion volume, The Contemporary Civil Law Tradition: Europe, Latin America, and East Asia, will present current trends in civil law countries and representative variations within national legal systems.

Comparative Law: Historical Development of the Civil Law Tradition in Europe, Latin America, and East Asia

CLARK, DAVID

Haley, John

Carolina Academic Press

This three-hole punched, alternative loose-leaf version of the hardbound book is printed on 8 ½ x 11 inch paper with wider margins and the same pagination — offered at a substantially lower price than the hardbound book. 
Comparative Law is intended for use in law schools and history and political science departments with introductory courses in comparative law or civil law systems, as well as in European or world legal history. The historical perspective of Comparative Law introduces students to the family of legal systems common to Europe, Latin America, and East Asia. The book also introduces the discipline of comparative law, its scope, origins, objectives, and methods, while discussing the contemporary example of nation building (or law and development) and its limitations. 
 Comparative Law is distinguishable from other comparative law books by its relative de-emphasis of rules and related doctrine. It also has greater attention to the intellectual history, structure, professional actors, and processes that are characteristic of civil law systems.
The companion volume, The Contemporary Civil Law Tradition: Europe, Latin America, and East Asia, will present current trends in civil law countries and representative variations within national legal systems.

This book begins with a critical reexamination of the rival Greek and British claims to the Elgin Marbles. That case study identifies the questions that still dominate the growing international debate about cultural property policy and are explored in subsequent essays: 
<li>Why do people care about cultural property? </li>
<li>Is cultural nationalism a sound organizing principle for dealing with cultural property questions? </li>
<li>Or is it a relic of 19th century romanticism, kept alive by the power of Byron's poetry? </li>
<li>How can cultural nationalism be rationalized with the idea that works of art and antiquities are "the cultural heritage of all mankind?" </li>
<li>What alternative ways are there of thinking about cultural property policy and law? </li>
<li>The author examines in particular the law and policy relating to cultural property export controls and the evolution and development of the 1995 UNIDROIT Convention on the Return of Stolen and Illegally Exported Cultural Property. In the second part of the book the author addresses a number of contemporary art law issues in essays on counterfeit art, the moral rights of artists, the artist's resale right (droit de suite), the litigation over the Mark Rothko estate, and problems of museum trustee negligence, conflict of interests, and misuse of inside information. 
The author, a Professor of Art Law at Stanford University, is a leading international figure in cultural property and art law circles.
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Thinking about the Elgin Marbles:Critical Essays on Cultural Property, Art and Law

Foreign & International Law

Springer

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Barton, Gibbs, Li, and Merryman's Law in Radically Different Cultures (American Casebook Series)

The Civil Law Tradition: An Introduction to the Legal Systems of Western Europe and Latin America

The Civil Law Tradition: An Introduction to the Legal Systems of Western Europe and Latin America

The Civil Law Tradition, 3rd Edition: An Introduction to the Legal Systems of Europe and Latin America

The Civil Law Tradition, 3rd Edition: An Introduction to the Legal Systems of Europe and Latin America

Comparative Law: Historical Development of the Civil Law Tradition in Europe, Latin America, and East Asia

Comparative Law: Historical Development of the Civil Law Tradition in Europe, Latin America, and East Asia

Thinking about the Elgin Marbles:Critical Essays on Cultural Property, Art and Law