Legal Families

Husa, Jaakko

doi:10.2139/ssrn.1529574

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Legal Families

ELGAR ENCYCLOPEDIA OF COMPARATIVE LAW, pp. 382-393, Jan M. Smits, ed., Edward Elgar, Cheltenham/Northampton, 2006

11 Pages Posted: 30 Dec 2009 Last revised: 7 Feb 2011

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Jaakko Husa

University of Helsinki - Faculty of Law

Date Written: December 30, 2009

Abstract

Comparative law has sought for decades to reach a macro-level grasp of the global panorama of legal systems. Comparative law is and has always been fascinated by the idea of thinking and conceiving law as a representative of larger category of being. Legal family has traditionally been an answer to this basic epistemic urge. The idea of this encyclopedia-entry is to provide basic theoretical dimensions of the concept of 'legal family'.

Keywords: comparative law, legal family, legal culture, legal tradition

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Husa, Jaakko, Legal Families (December 30, 2009). ELGAR ENCYCLOPEDIA OF COMPARATIVE LAW, pp. 382-393, Jan M. Smits, ed., Edward Elgar, Cheltenham/Northampton, 2006 , Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1529574 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1529574