Comparative Law offers a fresh, contextualised and sophisticated perspective on the discipline for students and scholars, covering essential academic discussions and comparative law methodology. Critically debating both traditional and modern approaches, the new edition is updated with recent scholarship and includes two new chapters.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
List of figures; List of tables; Preface; List of abbreviations; 1. Introduction; Part I. Traditional Comparative Law; 2. The comparative legal method; 3. Common law and Civil law; 4. Mapping the world's legal systems; 5. The diffusion of legal traditions; Part II. Extending the Methods of Comparative Law; 6. Postmodern comparative law; 7. Socio-legal comparative law; 8. Numerical comparative law; 9. Empirical comparative law; Part III. Global Comparative Law; 10. Legal transplants and convergence; 11. Comparative regional and international law; 12. From transnational law to global law; 13. Comparative law and development; Part IV. Comparative Law as an Open Subject; 14. Implicit comparative law; 15. Reflections and outlook; References; Index.