Deglobalizing Rule of Law and Democracy
Hunting Down Rhetoric Through Comparative Law
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3760652 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mauro Bussani (0000-0002-4213-9145, University of Trieste, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 67 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 701-744 |
| Publication date | 2019-12-31 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The American Journal of Comparative Law (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-919X • E-ISSN: 2326-9197 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/ajcl/avaa001 |
| OpenAlex | W3007366336 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 7 |
Notwithstanding the well-known differences that run through cultures and traditions, the West has never stopped trying to export its own law into the rest of the world. During and after the colonial era similar endeavors were spreading Western views on how legal issues are to be understood and handled, thereby broadening the West's area of influence on global legal affairs. More recently, these efforts have overlapped with (and have been blurred by the rhetorical veil of) so-called legal globalization. The focus of this Article is on the attitudes and methods underpinning the ongoing Western attempts to transplant the two pillars of Western civilization, i.e., democracy and the rule of law, into outside contexts. Confronted with processes that concern different legal systems, this Article cannot but take a comparative law approach. Such an approach entails a careful consideration of the historical and contextual factors and will enable an analysis of data that are usually either discarded or underrated in mainstream legal debates. Thus notions, ideas, and debates about the rule of law and democracy will be reappraised from a comparative law point of view in order to both unearth their intimate legal foundations and to scrutinize their potential for being transplanted outside Western societies. The analysis will show how this potential, to the extent that it exists, can only be exploited through a radical shift from the usual way in which the West approaches the legal settings it aims to change
Comparative law · Democracy · Globalization · Law and economics · Legal culture · Legal history · Legal realism · Mainstream · Philosophy of law · Political science · Politics · Rhetoric · Rhetorical question · Rule of law · Sociology · Comparative and International Law Studies · Conflict of Laws and Jurisdiction · Judicial and Constitutional Studies · Law · Philosophy
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| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0,67 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2025 (3) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |