Comparative contraventions
Abstract
While comparative law readily emphasizes foreignness, it tends to devote far less attention to the fact that the comparative experience equips the comparatist to intervene as a critic of his own law even as this law, being mired in its local ways, may well prove ill-disposed to allow itself to compear with other legal models to the point where it elects to censor the critique. This essay showcases the deployment of such censorship on the part of a legal culture that would not accept being critiqued by one of its own jurists who had proceeded to question its commitments on the basis of his comparative practice.
Fields of Study & Subjects
Comparative and International Law Studies
Comparative constitutional jurisprudence studies
Legal and Social Philosophy
Publication details
- Journal / source
- Routledge eBooks
- Pages
- 305–321
- Publication date
- 10 February 2026
- Language
- EN
- Document type
- Book chapter