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Every discipline has its canon: the set of standard texts, approaches, examples, and stories by which it is recognized and which its members repeatedly invoke and employ. Although the last twenty-five years have seen the influence of interdisciplinary approaches to legal studies expand, there has been little recent consideration of what is and what ought to be canonical in the study of law today. Legal Canons brings together fifteen essays which seek to map out the legal canon and the way in which law is taught today. In order to understand how the twin ideas of canons and canonicity operate in law, each essay focuses on a particular aspect, from contracts and constitutional law to questions of race and gender. The ascendance of law and economics, feminism, critical race theory, and gay legal studies, as well as the increasing influence of both rational-actor methodology and postmodernism, are all scrutinized by the leading scholars in the field. A timely and comprehensive volume, Legal Canons articulates the need for, and means to, opening the debate on canonicity in legal studies. Table of Contents

Comparative law and its importance in legal translation -- Legal families and traditions -- Italy / Angela Carpi -- France -- Spain -- Germany / Rafael Zambrana -- England and Wales -- The United States -- Ireland -- Training legal translators -- A didactic approach

Global comparative legal history : an introduction / JOSHUA C. TATE, JOSÉ REINALDO DE LIMA LOPES, AND ANDRÉS BOTERO-BERNAL -- Sincerity based proper relationship : socrates and confucius / CHI-SHING CHEN -- Legal development from a comparative perspective : English contract law in the nineteenth century / CATHARINE MACMILLAN -- Legal history and comparative perspective : a study of the Cuban experience / FABRICIO MULET MARTÍNEZ -- Bar associations and the circulation of legal knowledge : Argentina and Brazil, 1917-1943 / MARIANA DE MORAES SILVEIRA -- Lessons from the history of courts on the review of constitutional amendments in Colombia / MARIO ALBERTO CAJAS-SARRIA -- The revolutionary constitution of 1917 in Mexico : from individual guarantees to social rights, 1917-1928 / HUMBERTO MORALES MORENO -- Presidential impeachments in Brazil : lessons from the past and challenges for the future / RAFAEL MAFEI RABELO QUEIROZ -- Exclusion and inclusion of the French law on neighboring plots of land in the civil codes of Francophone Switzerland, Louisiana, and Quebec: reflections on the relation between law and society / ASYA OSTROUKH -- A legal-historical chronicle of rule-of-law narratives in Hong Kong / ANDRA LE ROUX-KEMP -- Justice in the Ibero-American world in the enlightenment era / ANDRÉA SLEMIAN -- Family courts and violence against women in Guatemala, 1964-1996 / JOHN W. WERTHEIMER

Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- Editor and Contributors -- Part I: The General Report -- Comparative Law and Multicultural Legal Classes: Challenge or Opportunity? -- 1 The Self and the External World: The Question of Understanding -- 2 The Genuine Meaning of the Query -- 3 Comparatio as a Field of Scholarly Activity and as a New, Comparison-Based form of Legal Education -- 4 Centrality of Self-Image, or Our Own Place in the World -- 5 The Problem of Legal Families -- 6 Successes and Results -- 7 Challenge and Opportunity -- References -- Part II: National Reports -- Comparative Law and Multicultural Classes: A Japanese Example -- 1 Introduction: The Definition of ``Multicultural Law Class´´ -- 2 Japanese Law and Legal Education in General -- 2.1 Modern Japanese Law as an ``Amalgam´´ of Various Legal Cultures -- 2.1.1 The History of Modern Japanese Law -- 2.1.2 An ``Amalgam´´ of Western and East Asian Cultures -- 2.2 Legal Education in Japan -- 3 Multicultural Classes: The Case of Hitotsubashi University (HU) -- 3.1 The History and Characteristics of HU -- 3.2 The Number of International Students and Multicultural Classes -- 3.3 Comparative Law Education at HU: My Own Case -- 4 Multicultural Law Classes: Challenge or Opportunity? -- 4.1 Teaching ``Legal Families´´ in Multicultural Law Classes -- 4.2 Tentative Conclusions and Some Issues to Consider -- References -- Brazilian Experience on Comparative Law: Much to Do, and Multicultural Legal Classes as an Opportunity -- 1 Introduction: Challenge -- 2 Comparative Law and Different Legal Cultures: The Scenario in Brazil -- 2.1 Human Rights as a Shared Language to Dialogue -- 2.2 Dialogue Scales and Directions -- 3 Multicultural Legal Classes: The Legal Education in Brazil -- 3.1 Paulo Freires Pedagogy -- 3.2 Multicultural Legal Classes in Brazil: Affirmative Actions.

Introduction -- Law in the early Christian church -- Canon Law in the early Middle Ages -- Canon Law amid eleventh-century reform efforts -- Gratian and the decretists -- Decretals and the decretalists -- Canon Law in intellectual spaces -- Courts and procedure -- Canon Law in the lives of people -- The impact of Canon Law on Western societies -- Conclusion.