Negative Comparative Law

A Strong Programme for Weak Thought

Pierre Legrand

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English

Cambridge University Press
20 June 2024

Jurisprudence & general issues; Comparative law; Public international law

Series: Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law

Written under the sign of Beckett, this book addresses comparative law's commitment to the deterritorialization of the legal and its attendant claim for the normative relevance of foreign law locally in the fabrication of statutory determinations, judicial opinions, or academic reflections. Wanting to withstand the law's persistent tendency towards nationalist retrenchment and counter comparative law's institutional marginalization, the fifteen essays at hand impart radical and discerning intellectual equipment in order to foster the valorization of the legally foreign and the comparative motion. In particular, the critique informing this manifesto examines pre-eminent topics like culture and difference, understanding and translatability, objectivity and truth, invention and tracing. Harnessing insights from a range of disciplinary discourses, this book contends that comparatists must boldly desist from their field's dominant epistemology and embrace a practice much better attuned to the study of foreignness.

By: Pierre Legrand
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 696g
ISBN: 9781009054867
ISBN 10: 1009054864
Series: Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law
Pages: 485
Publication Date: 20 June 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

1. Raising my game — To fail better; 2. Sniffing the wind; 3. Onomastics, very briefly; 4. More comparative law; 5. Borges's challenge; 6. Outings; 7. For indiscipline; 8. Decoloniality; 9. The same as the different; 10. Comparatism is culturalism; 11. This comparatist, even; 12. The negative; 13. The negative, applied; 14. My equipment; 15. Appreciation.

Pierre Legrand teaches comparative law at the Sorbonne.

Reviews for Negative Comparative Law: A Strong Programme for Weak Thought

'Impeccable scholarship, inimitable style, and relentless critique are the hallmarks of nigh-on three decades of work that culminate in Pierre Legrand's unique and remarkable syntagm 'Negative Comparative Law'.' Peter Goodrich, Journal of Law and Society