‘Legal tradition’ is a term frequently used in legal history and comparative law. The increasing interest in global perspectives on law and history, the dialectics inherent in globalisation as such, as well as some tendencies of ‘de-’ and ‘re-tradionalisation’, often enhanced by law, have made legal traditions even more topical. But what does ‘legal tradition’ mean? In this article, I review some characteristic usages of the term by classical authors from both legal history and comparative law, like JH Merryman and Harold J Berman, with special emphasis on the work of Canadian comparative law scholar HP Glenn. Beyond its grounding in contemporary information theory and evidence of an impressive command of legal-historical scholarship, his concept of legal tradition as normative information bears analytical potential for legal historians and should be read as an invitation to dialogue between comparative law and comparative legal history.

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法律传统。比较法与比较法史的对话

“法律传统”是法律史和比较法中经常使用的一个术语。人们对法律和历史的全球视角越来越感兴趣，全球化本身固有的辩证法，以及“去传统化”和“再传统化”的一些趋势，这些趋势经常被法律加强，使法律传统更具话题性。但“法律传统”是什么意思？在这篇文章中，我回顾了法学史和比较法领域的经典作者（如 JH Merryman 和 Harold J Berman）对该术语的一些典型用法，并特别强调了加拿大比较法学者 HP Glenn 的工作。除了以当代信息理论为基础，以及对法律历史学术的深刻掌握的证据之外，