Download or read book Legal Traditions of the World written by H. Patrick Glenn and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2014 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Legal Traditions of the World places national laws 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, its founding concepts and methods, its attitude towards the concept of change and its teaching on relations with other traditions and peoples. The concept of legal tradition is explained as non-conflict in character and compatible with new and inclusive forms of logic.