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Nader, Laura --- "Whose comparative law? A global perspective" [2017] ELECD 1594; in Nafziger, A.R. James (ed), "Comparative Law and Anthropology" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2017) 28

Book Title: Comparative Law and Anthropology

Editor(s): Nafziger, A.R. James

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781781955178

Section: Chapter 3

Section Title: Whose comparative law? A global perspective

Author(s): Nader, Laura

Number of pages: 15

Abstract/Description:

With the end of European empires and formal decolonization after the Second World War, more than 50 states with new names, borders, and government apparatus appeared on the scene. The state as a European idea did not matter at the time, although it matters a great deal in consideration of the question: Whose comparative law? States may be called nation-states when in actual fact they are centralized states encompassing a variety of nations, all operating under the rule of law. It is time for changes to the paradigms in comparative law studies, that are more inclusive.