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H. Patrick Glenn (1940-2014), Professor of Law and former Director of the Institute of Comparative Law at McGill University, was a key figure in the global discourse on comparative law. This collection is intended to honor Professor Glenn's intellectual legacy by engaging critically with his ideas, especially focusing on his visions of a 'cosmopolitan state' and of law conceptualized as 'tradition'. The book explores the intellectual history of comparative law as a discipline, its attempts to push the objects of its study beyond the positive law of the nation-state, and both its potential and the challenges it must confront in the face of the complex phenomena of globalization and the internationalization of law. An international group of leading scholars in comparative law, legal philosophy, legal sociology, and legal history takes stock of the field of comparative law and where it is headed

Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Abbreviations of Periodical Titles Cited in this Collection -- Notes on Contributors -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- Prologue -- 1 Stateless Law: Before, Inside and Outside the Law of the State -- Part I Introduction: Situating Stateless Law -- 2 Stating Boundaries: The Law, Disciplined -- 3 Teaching Law: 'Historian and Prophet All in One' -- Part II The 'Discipline' of Stateless Law -- 4 Back to the Future -- 5 Law as an Academic Discipline -- 6 Doctrinal Knowledge, Legal Doctrinal Scholarship and the Problem of Interdisciplinary Engagement -- 7 The Structure of Stateless Law -- Part III The Forms and Aspirations of Stateless Law -- 8 Brève théorie culturelle du droit -- 9 Un-stating Law -- 10 The Study of Legal Plurality outside 'Legal Pluralism': The Future of the Discipline? -- 11 Stateless Law: From Legitimacy to Validity -- 12 Non ratione imperii, sed imperio rationis -- Part IV The Practice, Teaching and Learning of Stateless Law -- 13 Thinking, Doing, Being: Why 'Practising' Law Matters to the Prevention of Torture -- 14 Qu'est-ce qu'une « faculté » de droit? De la philosophie au droit -- 15 Everything Old Is New Again: Stateless Law, the State of the Law Schools and Comparative Legal/Normative History -- 16 The Impact of 'Stateless Law' on Legal Pedagogy -- Epilogue -- 17 What Lies Before, Behind and Beneath a Case? Five Minutes on Transnational Lawyering and the Consequences for Legal Education

The following paper sets out some of the conclusions of a Grotius funded project concerning the revision of the Brussels and Lugano Conventions. It focusses in particular on the provisions of the Conventions dealing with lis pendens and related actions (currently Arts. 21 and 22) and the associated problem of determining the time of the proceedings. The difficulties experienced in interpreting Arts. 21 and 22 are noted and linked to differences in the domestic laws of the Member States. The existing interpretations given by the European Court of Justice are unsatisfactory because they fail to take adequate account of these national differences, and the role that they play within the national legal order. New wording for the relevant articles of the Conventions is proposed.