In this volume, Professor Deakin and Professor Pistor include those key articles which highlight the major contributions to, but also the inherent limits of, the legal origin literature. They consider the merits of this approach in the context of three fields of inquiry: the study of comparative law; the analysis of the relation between law and markets; and the understanding of the role of legal systems in social ordering.

Labor law is a highly dynamic and complex field which can be properly understood only in its broader international and historical context. This textbook - a work increasingly cited as authoritative in the higher appellate courts - provides a comprehensive analysis of current British labor law, which explains the role of different legal sources, as well as social and economic policy, in its development. It thus enables readers to obtain a deeper insight into likely future changes in the law. This sixth edition, while following the broad pattern of previous editions, highlights important new...