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This volume provides a valuable companion for students and researchers of European Comparative Law. Arranged alphabetically and cross-referenced, each entry presents an introduction to key topics. Comprising approximately 1500 words, these short essays go beyond the merely descriptive to provide an informative resource for students of Comparative Law, Legal Philosophy and Legal Systems in general.

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This work seeks to answer the question: "What does thinking like a lawyer actually involve"? The focus is mainly on English common law, but the text aims to contribute to comparative law, in as much as it is concerned with the "law" question.

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This book examines the notion of a law of obligations as a conceptual category in itself, and, in doing this, it presents the foundational material in a context that draws on some comparative and theoretical ideas while, at the same time, emphasising the special characteristics of the common law.

Presents stimulating new perspectives on Hindu and Buddhist religion, particularly their tantric versions, in India, Tibet or in modern Western societies. Samuel adopts an historically and textually informed anthropological approach, seeking to understand religion in its social and cultural context. Samuel from Uni of Newcastle, NSW.

Yoga and tantra are practised in modernized forms throughout the world today, but most introductions to Hinduism or Buddhism tell only part of the story of how they developed. This book seeks to understand their origins within the wider picture of the evolution of religion and society in South Asia.

Concerned with the aspects of human behaviour which have been traditionally described as cultural or social, the author draws on his background in physics to suggest a scientific approach involving a reconceptualization of many of our assumed concepts. Are culture, society and similar concepts from anthropology and sociology of any real use in making sense of human social life? How can we understand the relationship between the social group an...

Subtle-body practices are found particularly in Indian, Indo-Tibetan and East Asian societies, but have become increasingly familiar in Western societies, especially through the various healing and yogic techniques and exercises associated with them. This book explores subtle-body practices from a variety of perspectives, and includes both studies of these practices in Asian and Western contexts.

Geoffrey Samuel questions the widely held assumption that to have knowledge of law is simply to have knowledge of rules. In this volume, he examines what it is to have knowledge of law, embracing not only conceptual foundations and methods used by jurists, but also epistemological schemes employed by social scientists in general, in order to show that such schemes are closely related to those used by lawyers and judges.

Yoga and tantra are practised in modernized forms throughout the world today, but most introductions to Hinduism or Buddhism tell only part of the story of how they developed. This book seeks to understand their origins within the wider picture of the evolution of religion and society in South Asia.