... on a world-wide basis throughout the entire period of legal nationalism. As national legal exclusivity is increasingly challenged by the process of globalization, the concept of common law can be looked to once again as a means of conceptualization and justification of law beyond the state, while still...

... in relation to its own frame of reference, but this frame of theoretical reference must first be confronted with its own practical reality’. ²⁴ The absence of active comparison was comprehensible at the time of the greatest legal nationalism which the world has known. Moreover, the debate about how...

...The concept of legal families maintained the law of other peoples in the western view at a time of legal scientism and legal nationalism, in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It did so by accepting the idea of national legal systems and the possibility of a taxonomic description of them...

... the question of English legal nationalism by analyzing England's relation to France in terms of competing accounts of law French, the much-ridiculed professional language of the common law. It argues that legal Normanism can best be understood as the historical and structural internalization of France...

... which might be, and has been, seen as a model. European legal history also discloses a tendency to fragmentation and legal nationalism as well as common ground. Fitting European legal history into a crowded curriculum is a problem and it is uncertain how far history assists in understanding current...