TY - BOOK AU - Glenn,H.Patrick TI - Legal traditions of the world : sustainable diversity in law SN - 9780199580804 U1 - 340.2 22 PY - 2010/// CY - New York PB - Oxford University Press KW - Comparative law KW - Customary law KW - Legal polycentricity N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; A theory of tradition? : the changing presence of the past -- Between traditions : identity, persuasion and survival -- A Chthonic legal tradition : to recycle the world -- A Talmudic legal tradition : the perfect author -- A civil law tradition : the centrality of the person -- An Islamic legal tradition : the law of a later revelation -- A common law tradition : the ethic of adjudication -- A Hindu legal tradition : the law as king, but which law? -- A Confucian legal tradition : make it new (with Marx?) -- Reconciling legal traditions : sustainable diversity in law ER -