Ensayo Wilian Twing
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Publicado: 31 de mayo de 2012
Profile
At the start of his career William Twining taught for seven years in Sudan and Tanzania . He has maintained an interest in Eastern Africa , and more broadly the Commonwealth, ever since. Hehas studied and taught in several leading UK and American law schools. A prominent member of the Law in Context movement, he has contributed especially to jurisprudence, evidence and proof, legalmethod, legal education, and intellectual history.
His recent work explores the implications of “globalisation” for legal scholarship and legal theory. Central themes include the variety and complexityof legal phenomena; that many so-called “global” processes and patterns are sub-global, linked to empires, diasporas, alliances and legal traditions; that diffusion, legal pluralism, and surface laware important topics for both analytical and empirical jurisprudence; that, in a world characterised by profound diversity of beliefs and radical poverty, the discipline of law needs to engage withproblems of constructing just and workable supra-national institutions and practices; and that adopting a global perspective challenges some of the main working assumptions of Western traditions ofacademic law.
William Twining, formerly Quain Professor of Jurisprudence until 1996, has held chairs in Belfast and Warwick and numerous visiting appointments.
Research
Professor Twining is researchingin the following areas:
* General Jurisprudence
* Narrative and Reasoning in Legal Contexts
* Analysis of Evidence
Publications
Legal Theory
* General Jurisprudence: Understanding Lawfrom a Global Perspective (2009) (Cambridge University Press)
* Human Rights: Southern Voices (ed.) (Cambridge University Press, 2009)
* How To Do Things With Rules (with David Miers , 4thedn., 1999; 5 th edn forthcoming 2010)
* “Implications of globisation for law as a discipline” in A.Halpin and V. Roeben (eds.) Theorising the Global Order2009)
* “Social Science and Diffusion...
At the start of his career William Twining taught for seven years in Sudan and Tanzania . He has maintained an interest in Eastern Africa , and more broadly the Commonwealth, ever since. Hehas studied and taught in several leading UK and American law schools. A prominent member of the Law in Context movement, he has contributed especially to jurisprudence, evidence and proof, legalmethod, legal education, and intellectual history.
His recent work explores the implications of “globalisation” for legal scholarship and legal theory. Central themes include the variety and complexityof legal phenomena; that many so-called “global” processes and patterns are sub-global, linked to empires, diasporas, alliances and legal traditions; that diffusion, legal pluralism, and surface laware important topics for both analytical and empirical jurisprudence; that, in a world characterised by profound diversity of beliefs and radical poverty, the discipline of law needs to engage withproblems of constructing just and workable supra-national institutions and practices; and that adopting a global perspective challenges some of the main working assumptions of Western traditions ofacademic law.
William Twining, formerly Quain Professor of Jurisprudence until 1996, has held chairs in Belfast and Warwick and numerous visiting appointments.
Research
Professor Twining is researchingin the following areas:
* General Jurisprudence
* Narrative and Reasoning in Legal Contexts
* Analysis of Evidence
Publications
Legal Theory
* General Jurisprudence: Understanding Lawfrom a Global Perspective (2009) (Cambridge University Press)
* Human Rights: Southern Voices (ed.) (Cambridge University Press, 2009)
* How To Do Things With Rules (with David Miers , 4thedn., 1999; 5 th edn forthcoming 2010)
* “Implications of globisation for law as a discipline” in A.Halpin and V. Roeben (eds.) Theorising the Global Order2009)
* “Social Science and Diffusion...
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