Law's political foundations rivers, rifles, rice, and religion

"Law's Political Foundations explains the development of the two basic systems of public and private law and their historical transformations. Examining the historical development of law in China, Japan, Western Europe, and Hispanic America, Haley argues that law is a product, rather than...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Haley, John Owen, autor (autor)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing Limited [2016]
Series:Elgar studies in legal theory
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See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991007164219706719
Table of Contents:
  • Defining law's political foundations
  • Rivers, rifles, rice, and religion: paradigms and trajectories of legal change
  • Rivers, rifles and rice: foundations of public law and private ordering in China
  • Rice and rifles: foundations of private law and private ordering in Japan
  • Rivers, rifles, and religion: the primacy of private law in Western Europe
  • Rifles and religion: the transformation and transplantation of Western law in Hispanic America
  • Epilogue: beyond Magellan's world.