| Article | Theatrum Legale Mundi. On Legal Systems Classified |
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| Authors | Varga Cs. |
| Name of magazine | Scientific-practical professional journal «Comparative Law» (Ukrainian language) |
| Issue | 3-4 / 2012 |
| Pages | 17 - 37 |
| Annotation | Early attempts from the 17th century anticipate the 20th-century patterns of legal mapping. In the last decade, the insufficiency of resorting to the dichotomy contrasting our (Western) «Us» to any differing (Eastern) «Others» has resulted in new, dinamic and substantive criteria in typologising. Theoretically, there is no way in law to accomplish a real taxonomy with the formulation of genuine class-concepts. Only characterisation through concepts of order can be achieved at the most. For in want of any meta-system, cultures forming independently from one another cannot provide a common basis of division for classification of legal regimes. Or, what our grouping may aim at is practically division to major/minor sets/subsets alongside the manner by which we approach arrangements we think to be either similar or different on the basis of our culture. |
| Keywords | taxonomy, family resemblances, legal families, civil/common law, Western/Soviet law, characterisation/definition, comparative judicial mind. |
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