An Explorer of Legal Borderlands: A Review of William Twining’s Jurist in Context, a Memoir

Abstract

Bolonha, for the opportunity to write this book review. Professor Nelson Rosenvald recommended reading the book Scholars of Tort Law and his suggestion was especially helpful for the passage related to Patrick Atiyah in this book review. Executive-Editor Daniel Lucas did a terrific job in editing the entire number and I am grateful that he used in the cover a photograph that I took as part of my farewell to Oxford. Errors are all mine. 2 DPHIL (Oxford), JSM (Stanford), LLM (Harvard), MBE (Coppe-UFRJ), BA (PUC-Rio), LLB (UFRJ).

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“…The first attempt to outline a 'law in context' perspective came with William Twining's paper on 'The camel in the zoo', examining how the Sudanese dealt with wrongful harms through custom influenced by religious fatalism and the acceptance that the loss lies where it falls with respect to God's will (Twining, 1985;1997;Fortes, 2019). Subsequently, he challenged the prevailing orthodoxy in English legal education with the Law in Context book series founded in 1966 and that he supported as one of the co-editors for over fifty years (Twining, 2019).…”

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“…The first attempt to outline a 'law in context' perspective came with William Twining's paper on 'The camel in the zoo', examining how the Sudanese dealt with wrongful harms through custom influenced by religious fatalism and the acceptance that the loss lies where it falls with respect to God's will (Twining, 1985;1997;Fortes, 2019). Subsequently, he challenged the prevailing orthodoxy in English legal education with the Law in Context book series founded in 1966 and that he supported as one of the co-editors for over fifty years (Twining, 2019).…”