Research Catalog

Title

Comparative legal traditions : text, materials, and cases on western law / by Mary Ann Glendon, Paolo G. Carozza, Colin B. Picker.

Author

Glendon, Mary Ann, 1938-

Publication

St. Paul, MN : Thomson/West, c2007.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Carozza, Paolo G.
• Picker, Colin, 1965-

Description

xxxv, 990 p. : ill.; 27 cm.

Series Statement

American casebook series

Subject

Comparative law > Cases

Genre/Form

Trials, litigation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

History, culture and distribution of the civil law tradition -- Legal structures in civil law nations -- Legal actors in the civil law tradition -- Procedure in civil law systems -- Sources of law in civil law systems -- Fields of substantive law in civil law systems -- History, culture and distribution of the common law tradition -- Legal structures in England -- Legal actors in England -- Procedure in England -- Legal sources in England -- Fields of English law -- The European union -- European human rights law -- The question of convergence between civil law and common law traditions -- Comparative exercises: the role of courts in policing contracts for unfairness -- Comparative exercises: abortion and judicial review -- Comparative exercises: hybridization of adversarial and inquisitorial criminal procedures and the problem of plea bargaining -- Comparative exercises: mixed jurisdictions.

ISBN

• 9780314144089 (alk. paper)
• 0314144080 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2007272718

OCLC

• 78051730
• SCSB-10074049

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library