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Dalhousie Law Journal

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Approaching Aliens: A Plea For Jurisprudential Recovery As A Theoretical Introduction To (Ex)Socialist Legal Systems, Ivan L. Padjen May 1991

Approaching Aliens: A Plea For Jurisprudential Recovery As A Theoretical Introduction To (Ex)Socialist Legal Systems, Ivan L. Padjen

Dalhousie Law Journal

It might be wise to stop here. Even a reader who is sympathetic to jurisprudential imagination must regard the communicable part of my title with considerable misgiving. For he or she can hardly be unaware of the double jeopardy in which the general theorist of law places himself when dealing with socialist legal systems. The first has been aptly described by Alasdair MacIntyre in his parable of a man who aspired to be the author of the general theory of holes.' The moral of the story, that the concept of a hole is a poor foundation for a general theory …


Problemy Sravnitel'nogo Issledovaniia Zakonodatel'stva Soiuznykh Respublik, Leon Trakman Oct 1976

Problemy Sravnitel'nogo Issledovaniia Zakonodatel'stva Soiuznykh Respublik, Leon Trakman

Dalhousie Law Journal

In an earlier contribution to this journal' the present writer called attention to growing interest, in the Soviet Union, in the application of the comparative method to the study of Soviet domestic law as evidenced by the appearance of two criminal law texts devoted exclusively to Belorussian and Ukrainian criminal law. The volume herein reviewed elaborates that theme and endeavours to come expressly to grips with the methodological issues implicit in analyzing a single legal system from a comparative standpoint. The impetus for studying Soviet law from a comparative perspective evidently dates from the late 1960s and owes much to …


Problemy Sravnitel'nogo Issledovaniia Zakonodatel'stva Soiuznykh Respublik, Leon Trakman Oct 1976

Problemy Sravnitel'nogo Issledovaniia Zakonodatel'stva Soiuznykh Respublik, Leon Trakman

Dalhousie Law Journal

In an earlier contribution to this journal' the present writer called attention to growing interest, in the Soviet Union, in the application of the comparative method to the study of Soviet domestic law as evidenced by the appearance of two criminal law texts devoted exclusively to Belorussian and Ukrainian criminal law. The volume herein reviewed elaborates that theme and endeavours to come expressly to grips with the methodological issues implicit in analyzing a single legal system from a comparative standpoint. The impetus for studying Soviet law from a comparative perspective evidently dates from the late 1960s and owes much to …


Problemy Sravnitel'nogo Issledovaniia Zakonodatel'stva Soiuznykh Respublik, Leon Trakman Oct 1976

Problemy Sravnitel'nogo Issledovaniia Zakonodatel'stva Soiuznykh Respublik, Leon Trakman

Dalhousie Law Journal

In an earlier contribution to this journal' the present writer called attention to growing interest, in the Soviet Union, in the application of the comparative method to the study of Soviet domestic law as evidenced by the appearance of two criminal law texts devoted exclusively to Belorussian and Ukrainian criminal law. The volume herein reviewed elaborates that theme and endeavours to come expressly to grips with the methodological issues implicit in analyzing a single legal system from a comparative standpoint. The impetus for studying Soviet law from a comparative perspective evidently dates from the late 1960s and owes much to …