Comparative Legal Studies: Traditions and Transitions

ISBN-13: 9780521818117 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 532 str.

Pierre Legrand; Roderick Munday

Opis

These fourteen essays present an authoritative review of the current state of comparative legal studies. With backgrounds in law, political science, sociology, history and anthropology, the contributors examine comparative law's intellectual traditions; the strengths and failings of its methodologies; and, most importantly, future directions the subject is likely to take. This comprehensive study of the philosophical and methodological foundations of comparative law is a book with ideas and arguments every comparatist scholar is drawn to.

Recenzje

Review of the hardback: '… this book marks a step forward in comparative law analysis for a number of reasons. These are first of all that the book is wide-ranging in its fields of enquiry; second, that the links between comparative law on the one hand and sociology and jurisprudence on the other hand are brought to light. ' International and Comparative Law Quarterly

Spis treści

1. Introduction: accounting for an encounter Roderick Munday; Part I. Comparative Legal Studies and its Legacies: 2. The universalist heritage James Gordley; 3. The colonialist heritage Upendra Baxi; 4. The nationalist heritage H. Patrick Glenn; 5. The functionalist heritage Michele Graziadei; Part II. Comparative Legal Studies and its Boundaries: 6. Comparatists and sociology Roger Cotterrell; 7. Comparatists and languages Bernhard Großfeld; Part III. Comparative Legal Studies and its Theories: 8. The question of understanding Mitchel Lasser; 9. The same and the different Pierre Legrand; 10. The neo-romantic turn James Whitman; 11. The methods and the politics David Kennedy; Part IV. Comparative Legal Studies and its Futures: 12. Comparatists and transferability David Nelken; 13. Comparatists and extraordinary places Esin Örücü; Conclusion; 14. Beyond compare Lawrence Rosen; Index.