1. A Theory of Tradition? The Changing Presence of the Past -- 2. Between Traditions: Identity, Persuasion and Survival -- 3. A Chthonic Legal Tradition: to Recycle the World -- 4. A Talmudic Legal Tradition: the Perfect Author -- 5. A Civil Law Tradition: the Centrality of the Person -- 6. An Islamic Legal Tradition: the Law of a Later Revelation -- 7. A Common Law Tradition: the Ethnic of Adjudication -- 8. A Hindu Legal Tradition: the Law as King, but which Law? -- 9. An Asian Legal Tradition: MAKE IT NEW (with Marx?) -- 10. Reconciling Legal Traditions: Sustainable Diversity in Law