A Cosmopolitan Jurisprudence

Introduction: Where the 'Real Action' Is: From Comparative Law to Cosmopolitan Jurisprudence; Part I. The Tradition of 'Comparative Law': Context, History, Promise: 1. How to Do Comparative Law: Some Lessons to Be Learned Mauro Bussani; 2. The 'Comparative Method' at the Roots of Comparative Law Giorgio Resta; 3. The Value of Micro-Comparison John Bell; 4. Sociocultural Challenges for Comparative Legal Studies in Mixed Legal Systems Esin Örücü; 5. Breaking Barriers in Comparative Law Michele Graziadei; Part II The Concept of Tradition: Potential and Challenges: 6. Too Much Information Martin Krygier; 7. Legal Systems as Legal Traditions Catherine Valcke; 8. Learning from Patrick Glenn: Tradition, Change, and Innovation David Nelken; 9. The Sunni Legal Tradition: An Overview of Pluralism, Formalism, and Reform Ahmed Fekry Ibrahim; 10. Commensurability, Comparative Law, and Confucian Legal Tradition Marie Seong-Hak Kim; Part III. Crossing Boundaries: Cultural Transfer, Legal Cosmopolitanism, and the Dissolution of the State: 11. The School of Salamanca: A Common Law? Thomas Duve; 12. The Un-Common Law Vivian Grosswald Curran; 13. The Fabric of Normative Translation in Law Ko Hasegawa; 14. Statehood as Process: The Modern State Between Closure and Openness Gunnar Folke Schuppert; 15. Cosmopolitan Attachments Neil Walker.