Comparative Law (Law in Context)
Cambridge University Press
Edition: 2, 4/12/2018
EAN 9781107182417, ISBN10: 1107182417
Hardcover, 528 pages, 24.4 x 17 x 2.9 cm
Language: English
Originally published in English
Comparative Law offers a thorough grounding in the subject for students and scholars of comparative law alike, critically debating both traditional and modern approaches to the subject and using examples from a range of legal systems gives the reader a truly global perspective. Covering essential academic debates and comparative law methodology, its contextualised approach draws on examples from politics, economics and development studies to provide an original contribution to topics of comparative law. This new edition: is fully revised and updated throughout to reflect contemporary research, contains more examples from many areas of law and there is also an increased discussion of the relevance of regional, international, transnational and global laws for comparative law. Suitable for students taking courses in comparative law and related fields, this book offers a fresh contextualised and cosmopolitan perspective on the subject.
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
Part II. Extending the Methods of Comparative Law
5. Postmodern comparative law
6. Socio-legal comparative law
7. Numerical comparative law
Part III. Global Comparative Law
8. Legal transplants
9. Convergence, regionalisation, and internationalisation
10. From transnational law to global law
11. Comparative law and development
Part IV. Comparative Law as an Open Subject
12. Implicit comparative law
13. Reflections and outlook.