Comparative Law is experiencing something of a renaissance, as legal scholars and practitioners traditionally outside the discipline find it newly relevant in projects such as constitution and code drafting, the harmonization of laws, court decisions, or as a tool for understanding the globalization of legal institutions. On the other hand, comparativists within the discipline find themselves asking questions about the identity of comparative law, what it is that makes comparative law unique as a discipline, what is the way forward. This book, designed with courses in comparative law as well as scholarly projects in mind, brings a new generation of comparativists together to reflect on the character of their discipline. It aims to incite curiosity and debate about contemporary issues within comparative law by bringing the discipline into conversation with debates in anthropology, literary and cultural studies, and critical theory. The book addresses questions such as what is the disciplinary identity of comparative law; how should we understand its relationship to colonialism, modernism, the Cold War, and other wider events that have shaped its history; what is its relationship to other projects of comparison in the arts, social sciences and humanities; and how has comparative law contributed at different times and in different parts of the world to projects of legal reform. Each of the essays frames its interpretation around a close reading of the life and work of one formative character in the history of the discipline. Taken as a whole, the book offers a fresh and sophisticated picture of the discipline and its future.
Annelise Riles is a Professor of Law at Cornell Law School.
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这本书提供了一种急需的“去中心化”视角来审视法律全球化和比较法学的发展。我特别欣赏作者对历史的运用,他没有停留在对既有法律传统的简单回顾,而是巧妙地将历史的演变与当代理论争论编织在一起,展示了今天的比较法困境是如何一步步累积而成的。作者的论证结构非常严谨,但其语气却带着一种近乎先知般的洞察力,仿佛他看穿了所有关于法律融合与冲突的表象,直指核心的认识论难题。我特别欣赏它对不同学派之间对话的重构,那种将看似水火不容的观点置于同一个分析框架下进行张力测试的手法,极其高明。总而言之,这本书不是用来提供安慰或确认现有知识的,它是用来挑战、颠覆和重塑我们对比较法这一学科核心价值的理解的。
评分这本书的阅读体验是相当“颠覆性”的。我印象最深的是作者对“普适性标准”的挑战部分。传统比较法常有一个潜在的假设,即存在一些可以凌驾于具体文化之上的衡量标尺,可以用来评估不同法律体系的“优劣”。然而,本书采取了一种近乎激进的立场,质疑这种假设的合理性,并深入剖析了这种“普适性”叙事背后可能隐藏的西方中心主义倾向。语言风格上,它展现出一种罕见的文学性和学术性的完美结合,文字张力十足,偶尔会用一种近乎诗意的语言来描述法律概念的演变,这在通常枯燥的法学著作中是极为罕见的。这种表达方式,让原本抽象的理论讨论变得鲜活、可感。我感觉我不是在阅读一个结论,而是在参与一场严肃的智力对话,作者似乎一直站在我的对立面,不断地用犀利的观点来激发我的思考,确保我的理解不会落入任何一种既定的教条之中。
评分我必须承认,这本书的阅读门槛不低,它要求读者对比较法的基础概念有扎实的了解,但回报是巨大的。它不像那些旨在“教你如何做比较”的操作手册,它更像是一把精密的解剖刀,深入剖析了比较法作为一门学科自身的“病灶”。最吸引我的是关于“语境依赖性”的讨论,作者毫不留情地指出了许多比较研究在跨文化语境下是如何失败的,仅仅因为研究者未能充分理解那些看似微不足道的社会、历史或政治前提。这种对研究者自身局限性的深刻反思,是许多同类书籍所欠缺的。它不是在批评某个具体的比较结果,而是在批判“比较”这一行为本身的内在逻辑漏洞。读完后,我感觉自己对任何声称能够提供“中立”或“客观”比较的论述都保持了一种健康的怀疑态度,这无疑是一种巨大的进步。
评分这本书的叙事节奏感极强,读起来不像是在啃一本严肃的学术专著,反而更像是在跟随一位经验老到的侦探进行现场勘查。它没有堆砌冗长、晦涩的术语,而是通过一系列引人入胜的案例和历史片段,将那些看似遥不可及的比较法理论“拉到地面上”。特别是关于“法律的移植与适应性”那几章,作者的笔触极为细腻,他展示了法条是如何在不同的社会土壤中被“驯化”或“异化”的过程。这种对动态过程的关注,打破了我过去那种静态地看待各国法律体系的习惯。我发现自己开始关注那些被主流理论忽略的“灰色地带”——那些法律规则在实际运作中产生的意料之外的后果,以及权力结构如何隐形地影响着比较研究的议程设置。对我来说,这本书的价值不在于它提供了多少新的比较案例,而在于它彻底改变了我观察和提问的方式,让我意识到比较法研究本身也是一个需要不断被审视和批判的对象。
评分这部作品简直是为那些对比较法领域心存疑虑,或者觉得现有框架已经僵化的人量身定做的。我之前读过不少比较法的教科书,它们大多遵循着一种清晰、但略显刻板的结构,总是试图将不同法域的“精髓”提炼出来,然后进行并置。但这本书,从我翻阅它的那一刻起,就给我一种截然不同的感觉。它似乎更像是一场深入的哲学思辨,而不是简单的法条罗列。作者没有急于给出“标准答案”,而是不断地抛出挑战性的问题:我们引以为傲的“比较”究竟是在服务于谁的利益?当我们审视他人的法律体系时,是不是不自觉地戴上了自己文化的主观滤镜?这种对方法论本身的深刻反思,让阅读过程充满了智力上的刺激。它迫使你放下那些早已习惯的分析工具,重新审视比较法的研究范式,寻找一种更具动态性和批判性的视角来理解跨国法律现象。这本书的论证力度非常强,那种层层递进,将传统理论解构得体无完肤的气势,读起来酣畅淋漓,让人不得不停下来反复思考。
评分Representing an excellent study on the historiography of comparative law as an academic subject, the book by collecting essays on various key figures on the various phases of comparative law being formulated as a separate and mature discipline, gives every reader a better picture of events in the history of comparative law and of its present.
评分Representing an excellent study on the historiography of comparative law as an academic subject, the book by collecting essays on various key figures on the various phases of comparative law being formulated as a separate and mature discipline, gives every reader a better picture of events in the history of comparative law and of its present.
评分Representing an excellent study on the historiography of comparative law as an academic subject, the book by collecting essays on various key figures on the various phases of comparative law being formulated as a separate and mature discipline, gives every reader a better picture of events in the history of comparative law and of its present.
评分Representing an excellent study on the historiography of comparative law as an academic subject, the book by collecting essays on various key figures on the various phases of comparative law being formulated as a separate and mature discipline, gives every reader a better picture of events in the history of comparative law and of its present.
评分Representing an excellent study on the historiography of comparative law as an academic subject, the book by collecting essays on various key figures on the various phases of comparative law being formulated as a separate and mature discipline, gives every reader a better picture of events in the history of comparative law and of its present.
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