This prize-winning work offers a major new means of conceptualizing law and legal relations across the world. National laws are placed in the broader context of major legal traditions, those of chthonic (or indigenous) law, talmudic law, civil law, islamic law, common law, hindu law and confucian law. Each tradition is examined in terms of its institutions and substantive law, ...(展开全部)

加拿大著名比较法学家，麦吉尔大学法学院教授，国际比较法科学院成员。

An introduction to comparative law written from the American lawyer's viewpoint rather than that of the European civil law lawyer. This expert discussion concentrates on the three major legal traditions of the West: civil, common, and socialist. Subjects covered include legal structures in civil law nations; legal actors in civil law tradition; procedure; substantive law; sourc...(展开全部)

Samuele Chilovi , Institute of Philosophy (IFS), Spanish National Research Council (CSIC)

Samuele Chilovi , Institute of Philosophy (IFS), Spanish National Research Council (CSIC)

Legal Reason describes and explains analogical reasoning, the distinctive feature of legal argument. It challenges the prevailing view that analogical reasoning is a logically flawed, defective form of deductive reasoning. Drawing on work in epistemology and cognitive psychology, the book shows that analogical reasoning in the law is the same as that used by everyone routinely ...(展开全部)

Legal Reason describes and explains the process of analogical reasoning, which is the distinctive feature of legal argument. It challenges the prevailing view, urged by Edward Levi, Cass Sunstein, Richard Posner and others, which regards analogical reasoning as logically flawed or as a defective form of deductive reasoning. It shows that analogical reasoning in the law is the s...(展开全部)

What does it mean to assert or deny the existence of a legal system? How can one determine whether a given law belongs to a certain legal system? What kind of structure do these systems have, that is--what necessary relations obtain between their laws? The examination of these problems in this volume leads to a new approach to traditional jurisprudential question, though the co...(展开全部)

曼利奥·贝洛莫（Manlio Bellomo），意大利法律史学者，意大利卡塔尼亚大学法律史教授。曾在罗马大学跟随弗朗切斯科·卡拉索（Francesco Calasso）学习，在欧洲法律史领域，他撰写了大量的著作和论文。1987年，贝洛莫和斯蒂芬·库特纳（Stephan Kuttner）共同成立了共同法国际学院，并担任该学院的联合院长。 高仰光，中国人民大学法学院法律史教研室副教授，瑞士苏黎世大学法学院访问学者，长期从事欧洲法律史的研究，具体包括古希腊法、罗马法、西欧中世纪城市法与封建法、近代德国法等领域。

曼利奥·贝洛莫（Manlio Bellomo），意大利法律史学者，意大利卡塔尼亚大学法律史教授。曾在罗马大学跟随弗朗切斯科·卡拉索（Francesco Calasso）学习，在欧洲法律史领域，他撰写了大量的著作和论文。1987年，贝洛莫和斯蒂芬·库特纳（Stephan Kuttner）共同成立了共同法国际学院，并担任该学院的联合院长。 高仰光，中国人民大学法学院法律史教研室副教授，瑞士苏黎世大学法学院访问学者，长期从事欧洲法律史的研究，具体包括古希腊法、罗马法、西欧中世纪城市法与封建法、近代德国法等领域。