The Cambridge companion to comparative law / edited by Mauro Bussani and Ugo Mattei.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bussani, Mauro, editor.

Mattei, Ugo, editor.

Series:

Cambridge companions to law

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Comparative law.

Legal polycentricity.

Civil law.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 410 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012.

System Details:

Mode of Access: World Wide Web.

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Summary:

We can only claim to understand another legal system when we know the context surrounding the positive law in which lawyers are trained. To avoid ethnocentricity and superficiality, we must go beyond judicial decisions, doctrinal writings and the black-letter law of codes and statutes and probe the 'deeper structures' where law meets cultural, political, socio-economic factors. It is only when we acquire such awareness and knowledge of the critical factors affecting both the backgrounds and implications of rules that it becomes possible to control the present and possibly future developments of the world's legal institutions. This collection of essays aims to provide the reader with a fundamental understanding of the dynamic relationship between the law and its cultural, political and socio-economic context.

Contents:

Diapositives versus movies : the inner dynamics of the law and its comparative account / Mauro Bussani and Ugo Mattei

Part I. Knowing comparative law

Comparative law and neighbouring disciplines / Mathias Reimann

Political ideology and comparative law / Duncan Kennedy

Economic analysis and comparative law / Nuno Garoupa and Tom Ginsburg

Comparative law and anthropology / Lawrence Rosen

Comparative law and language / Barbara Pozzo

Part II. Comparative law fields

Comparative studies in private law / Franz Werro

Comparative administrative law / Francesca Bignami

Comparative constitutional law / Günter Frankenberg

Comparative criminal justice / Elisabetta Grande

Comparative civil justice / Oscar G. Chase and Vincenzo Varano

Comparative law and international organizations / George A. Bermann

Part III. Comparative law in the flux of civilizations

The East Asian legal tradition / Teemu Ruskola

The Jewish legal tradition / J. David Bleich and Arthur J. Jacobson

The Islamic legal tradition / Khaled Abou El Fadl

The sub-Saharan legal tradition / Rodolfo Sacco

The Latin American and Caribbean legal traditions / Diego López-Medina

Mixed legal systems / Vernon Valentine Palmer

Democracy and the Western legal tradition / Mauro Bussani.

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ISBN:

9781139017206

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