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Book SynopsisDeveloping a fresh historical understanding of modern comparative law, this study focuses on how legal identities are structured in the global North and South. Taking a theoretical approach, Bonilla engages with major conceptual frameworks to question the orthodox narratives of the international legal system and comparative law scholarship.
Trade Review'… Legal Barbarians is an important contribution to the discipline of comparative law … The book is also very well referenced, constituting an excellent bibliographic resource for the critical comparative jurist. Finally, it is also very pleasant to read. Concentrated in less than 200 pages - which is rare - it makes us think and travel thanks to its sometimes poetic analogies and images …' Eugénie Mérieau, Droit et Société (from French)
Table of Contents1. Introduction; 2. The legal identity of the global south narrative and comparative law; 3. Comparative instrumental studies Montesquieu, geography and law; 4. Comparative legislative studies H. S. Maine, history, progress, and the comparative method; 5. Comparative law as an autonomous discipline legal taxonomies and families; 6. The critical academic of law: resistance and emancipation.
