Engaging Foreign Law: Not So Liberally

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21056/aec.v20i75.1121

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globalization, liberalism, “rule of law”, culture, comparative law

Resumo

Taking its cue from a remarkable institutional initiative owing to the Georgetown University Law Center, this essay contests some of the key assumptions that have informed liberalism’s cosmopolitan turn. In particular, the argument addresses the way in which liberal legal thought has handled a doctrine widely known as “the rule of law”. The text challenges the universalizing drive having informed the dissemination of “the rule of law” and the attendant marginalization of culture in the form of the decredibilization of local knowledge. The paper suggests that “comparative law” can offer a valuable opportunity for the liberal self to revisit its uniformizing ideological commitments  — although not “comparative law” of the mainstream brand.

Biografia do Autor

  • Pierre Legrand, Universidade Federal do Paraná e Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná
    Professor and Doctor of Law, Ecole de droit de la Sorbonne, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne–Paris I. Visiting Professor, Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law (Chicago); Distinguished Visiting Professor, University of San Diego School of Law; Visiting Professor, Faculdade de Direito, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná (Curitiba). E-mail: pierre_legrand@orange.fr.

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2019-05-20

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