Framing Devices and Global Legal Traditions: From the Ancient World to the Modern Nation State (1) (Routledge Studies in Comparative Legal History)

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Synopsis
This collection explores prefaces, prologues, paratexts, and other types of framing devices. Across world history, these devices have introduced the law, articulated its context and audience, identified the basis of legal and moral authority, critiqued existing conditions, or even tried to "restore" something that never was. Scribes, lawmakers, and legal theorists also used frames to position the law in time and space, purporting to define populations and their identities. Despite the ubiquity and complexity of these phenomena, few studies have drawn out methods for studying their role in constructing, fortifying, or reimagining legal frameworks within legal cultures or traditions. This volume offers new ways to consider the significance of framing apparatuses regarding how and why they are created, remembered, forgotten, utilized, and recovered within legal traditions. The studies range from the ancient world to the modern nation-state system, aiming to explore the intersections and collisions between juridical and political interpretation practices.The book will be of interest to academics and researchers in the areas of legal history, comparative law, legal cultures and traditions, legal theory, jurisprudence, constitutional law and legislative drafting.
Copyright:
2026

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Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
Book Size:
292 Pages
ISBN-13:
9781040397848
Related ISBNs:
9781032849447, 9781040397817, 9781003534815
Publisher:
Taylor & Francis
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Copyrighted By:
selection and editorial matter, Laura Culbertson and Susan Longfield Karr
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
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No
Categories:
History, Nonfiction, Language Arts, Law, Legal Issues and Ethics, Communication
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Bookshare Staff
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This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:
Laura Culbertson
Edited by:
Susan Longfield Karr

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