Comparing Law: Comparative Law as Reconstruction of Collective Commitments

ISBN-13: 9781108455176 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 242 str.

Catherine Valcke

Opis

This book reconstructs existing comparative law scholarship into a coherent analytic framework so as to both fend off current charges of theoretical arbitrariness and guide future work.

Recenzje

'One can only thank Catherine Valcke for having contributed so meaningfully to this new, and much-needed, trend.' Luca Siliquini-Cinelli, Edinburgh Law Review

Spis treści

Prologue: the 'malaise' of comparative law; 1. Law; 2. Legal systems; 3. Engaging with legal systems – epistemology; 4. Delineating legal systems – geography; 5. Comparing legal systems – methodology; Epilogue: the 'academic discipline' of comparative law.