1 A Theory of Tradition? The Changing Presence of the Past 1
2 Between Traditions: Identity, Persuasion and Survival 33
3 A Chthonic Legal Tradition: To Recycle the World 61
4 A Talmudic Legal Tradition: The Perfect Author 99
5 A Civil Law Tradition: The Centrality of the Person 133
6 An Islamic Legal Tradition: The Law of a Later Revelation 181
7 A Common Law Tradition: the Ethic of Adjudication 237
8 A Hindu Legal Tradition: The Law as King, but which Law? 288
9 A Confucian Legal Tradition: Make it New (with Marx?) 319
10 Reconciling Legal Traditions: Sustainable Diversity in Law 361
Index 387