- See the brilliant essay of Gayatri Spivak in A Critique of Postcolonial Reason: Toward a History of the Vanishing Present (Harvard University Press, 1999).
- The book contains the following contributions: Paul Dresch, ‘Legalism, Anthropology, and History: A View from Part of Anthropology’; Hannah Skoda, ‘A Historian's Perspective on the Present Volume’; Georgy Kantor, ‘Ideas of Law in Hellenistic and Roman Legal Practice’; Donald R Davis Jr, ‘Centres of Law: Duties, Rights, and Jurisdictional Pluralism in Medieval India’; TB Lambert, ‘The Evolution of Sanctuary in Medieval England’; Paul Dresch, ‘Aspects of Non-State Law: Early Yemen and Perpetual Peace’; Paul Brand, ‘The English Medieval Common Law (to c. 1307) as a System of National Institutions and Legal Rules: Creation and Functioning’; Judith Scheele, ‘Rightful Measures: Irrigation, Land and the Shari'ah in the Algerian Touat’; Andrew Huxley, ‘Lord Kyaw Thu's Precedent: A Sixteenth Century Burmese Law Report’; Malcolm Vale, ‘Custom, Combat, and the Comparative Study of Laws: Montesquieu Revisited’; and Hannah Skoda, ‘Legal Performances in Late Medieval France’.
- Karl N Llewellyn and E Adamson Hoebel, The Cheyenne Way: Conflict and Case Law in Primitive Jurisprudence (University of Oklahoma Press, 1941) 288.
- Aaron J Gourevitch, Les catégories de la culture médiévale (Gallimard, 1983) 176–80.
Comparative Legal History
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