Globalization and Comparative Law
Globalization and Comparative Law
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全球化与比较法
DOI:
10.1177/1023263x9900600302
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发表时间:
1999
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通讯作者:
W. Twining
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W. Twining
* Research Professor of Law, University College London; Visiting Professor, University of Miami Law School. 1. Italo Calvino, Mr Palomar (1983, trs. William Weaver, Harcourt Brace, 1985) ,1 .1 .1 ., ‘Mr Palomar on the Beach; Reading a Wave’. 2. id. 6 3. id. 8. Mr Palomar is an intellectually honest reductionist. In Calvino’s Invisible Cities, (trs. W. Weaver, Harcourt Brace, 1974) the central contrast is between Kubla Khan, who is a reductionist, and his young Ambassador Marco Polo, who sees even a single object, such as a chessboard, as opening up a universe of possibilities like seeing a world in a grain of sand. Kubla Khan is trying to regain control of his empire by reducing it to a single pattern. He asks Marco Polo to describe the cities he has visited. Polo obliges by giving fifty-five different evocations or depictions of cities, that could all refer to different cities, or just one city; all the depictions involve impicit comparison with one reference point, Polo’s own city, Venice. Legal scholarship, and its satellite legal theory, has its reductionist Palomars and Kubla Khans and its expansive, sometimes post-modern, Marco Polos. Yet even Polo acknowledges ‘a hidden filigree of design upon which all human experience is built’ 5-6, 43-44. This theme is elaborated in an essay on ‘Mapping Law’, MacDermott Lecture, The Queen’s University Belfast, 1998, 50 Nonhem Ireland Law Quarterly (1999), 12-49