Contact details
- Name:
- Professor William Twining
- Qualifications:
- FBA, QC, DCL, JD, LLD
- Position/Fellowship type:
- Senior Associate Research Fellow
- Fellowship term:
- 2014
- Institute:
- Institute of Advanced Legal Studies
- Home institution:
- University College London
- Related institutes:
- Central Services of the School
- Email address:
- wtwining@gmail.com
Research Summary and Profile
- Research interests:
- Law
- Summary of research interests and expertise:
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His recent work explores the implications of “globalisation” for legal scholarship and legal theory. Central themes include the variety and complexity of 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 law are 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 with problems 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 of academic law.
Professor Twining is researching in the following areas:
General Jurisprudence
Narrative and Reasoning in Legal Contexts
Analysis of Evidence
- Publication Details
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Related publications/articles:
Date Details 01-Jan-2012 Karl Llewellyn and the Realist Movement (1973, 1985); 2nd edition Monographs
1973, 1985); 2nd edition, 2012 with Afterword, Cambridge University Press