na INLIS000000000009375 20221025041943 0010-0520009375 221025 | | eng 978-0-521-73809-5 eng 340 340 TWI g Twining, William General Jurisprudence : Understanding Law from a Global Perspective / William Twining Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambriedge University Press, 2009 xxiii, 517 p. ; 26 cm. This book explores how globalisation influences the understanding of law. Adopting a broad concept of law and a global perspective, it critically reviews mainstream Western traditions of academic law and legal theory. Its central thesis is that most processes of so-called 'globalisation' take place at sub-global levels and that a healthy cosmopolitan discipline of law should encompass all levels of social relations and the legal ordering of these relations. It illustrates how the mainstream Western canon of jurisprudence needs to be critically reviewed and extended to take account of other legal traditions and cultures. Written by the one of the foremost scholars in the field, this important work presents an exciting alternative vision of jurisprudence. It challenges the traditional canon of legal theorists and guides the reader through a field undergoing seismic changes in the era of globalisation. This is essential reading for all students of jurisprudence and legal theory. Jurisprudence; Law--Philosophy Law and globalization Legal positivism 22182/MKRI-P/XI-2011 22181/MKRI-P/XI-2011 22181/MKRI-P/XI-2011 22182/MKRI-P/XI-2011 22181/MKRI-P/XI-2011 22182/MKRI-P/XI-2011 22182/MKRI-P/XI-2011 22181/MKRI-P/XI-2011