A Cosmopolitan Jurisprudence: Essays in Memory of H. Patrick Glenn

Abstract

The aim of A Cosmopolitan Jurisprudence is not merely to honor Patrick Glenn’s life and work, although it certainly does that—the essays are suffused with affection for Patrick as a friend and colleague and respect for his wide-ranging scholarly contributions.1 Rather, as William Twining notes in his Foreword, the collection seeks to continue and advance the conversations in which Patrick was so deeply engaged. The volume is organized into three parts addressing interlocking themes explored in Patrick’s work. The first focuses largely on methodological questions, examining the history, characteristics, and limitations of traditional comparative law. The second turns to Patrick’s pathbreaking work on legal traditions, assessing both the insights and the challenges of his conceptual model. Finally, the third takes up his later work on the cosmopolitan state. The authors approach their topics from a range of perspectives. Vivian Curran and Thomas Duve, for instance, offer rich historical accounts of the English common law and the School of Salamanca,2 respectively, while Ko Hasegawa draws on philosophical hermeneutics to develop a theoretical model of the process of norm translation.3 The volume also contains case studies intended to test Glenn’s ideas, including chapters drawing on Talmudic law (David Nelken),4 the Sunni legal tradition (Ahmed Fekry Ibrahim),5 and Confucian law (Marie Seong-Hak Kim).6