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[Editor’s note: this is the final of four blog posts featuring the volume “A Cosmopolitan Jurisprudence: Essays in Memory of Patrick Glenn”, edited by Helge Dedek, Cambridge University Press, ASCL Studies in Comparative Law, 2022]

It has been a long journey from the first tentative ideas to the publication of this collection in memory of an esteemed colleague and beloved friend.

[Editor’s note: this is the third of four blog posts featuring the volume “A Cosmopolitan Jurisprudence: Essays in Memory of Patrick Glenn”, edited by Helge Dedek, Cambridge University Press, ASCL Studies in Comparative Law, 2022]

Often the words we use are at the same time commonplace and weightless; we are comfortable using them and they loosely, often usefully, direct the flow of verbal traffic one way or another along paths we and others can understand.

[Editor’s note: this is the second of four blog posts featuring the volume “A Cosmopolitan Jurisprudence: Essays in Memory of Patrick Glenn, edited by Helge Dedek, Cambridge University Press, ASCL Studies in Comparative Law, 2022]

The most controversial theoretical contribution to comparative law by the polymathic Patrick Glenn in his Legal Traditions of the World was his effort to get us to think well of tradition(s). For

[Editor’s note: this is the first of four blog posts featuring the volume “A Cosmopolitan Jurisprudence: Essays in Memory of Patrick Glenn, edited by Helge Dedek, Cambridge University Press, ASCL Studies in Comparative Law, 2022]

Patrick Glenn’s scholarship does not introduce a ‘concept of law’ or explicitly criticize the concepts of others.

Comparative law is no stranger to debates on globalization. Indeed, the complexity, diversity and often pluralistic nature of law in a globalized world is frequently raised in debates about the appropriate lens for legal comparisons, such as legal families, legal cultures or — the explicitly borderless — legal traditions (see Glenn, 2010).

The present book constitutes, to our knowledge, the first attempt to introduce young minds to legal concepts and reasoning in three different languages (English, French and Greek) through the narration of civil law and common law court decisions or incidents/stories viewed from a legal perspective and written in simplified words.

Assessing Liberal Democracy in Times of Rising Populism and Illiberalism

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In recent years, liberal constitutionalism has come under sharp attack. Globalization has caused huge disparities in wealth, identity-based alienation triggered by mass migration, and accompanying erosions of democracy. Illiberal populists have also adapted the framework of liberal institutionalism, masking their aim to subvert its core values.

Comparative law is the crossroads of extremely varied methodologies and tendencies. In order to orient oneself in this wide-ranging field, it is necessary to employ a profound critical approach aimed at highlighting the merits and the risks of each trend. Generally, it is usual to distinguish comparative law methods into a micro-comparatist and a macro-comparatist level.