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New directions in comparative law / edited by Antonina Bakardjieva Engelbrekt, Joakim Nergelius.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Comparative law.
- Law.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (304 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Cheltenham, U.K. ; Northampton, Mass. : Edward Elgar, c2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Explores the changing role of comparative law in an era of Europeanisation and globalisation. This work explains how national law coexists and interacts with supranational and international law and how legal rules are produced by a variety of institutions alongside and beyond the nation-state.
- Contents:
- Cover; Contents; Contributors; Abbreviations; Preface; Introduction; Chapter 1: Legal change and economic performance: an assessment; Chapter 2: Legal cartography and comparative law; Chapter 3: Development assistance in the legal field: promotion of market economy v human rights; Chapter 4: Can human rights be exported? On the very idea of human rights transplantability; Chapter 5: 'Cut-and-paste'? Rule of law promotion and legal transplants in war to peace transitions; Chapter 6: Ontological and epistemological complexity in comparative constitutional law
- Chapter 7: European constitutional law: its notion, scope and finalitiesChapter 8: Governmental accountability in autonomies: Aland Islands in comparison with selected autonomies in Europe and elsewhere; Chapter 9: The viability of constitutional/non-constitutional comparison; Chapter 10: Comparative aspects of fundamental rights in Germany and Central and Eastern Europe: the example of Ukraine; Chapter 11: Making the Principles of European ContractLaaw: theoretical and methodological aspects
- Chapter 12: The questionable questionnaire: reflections on comparative law method in light of Principles of European Tort LawChapter 13: Legal services in conveyancing: a European comparison; Chapter 14: Constitutionalisation of private law; Chapter 15: Toward an institutional approach to comparative economic law?; Chapter 16: Modern comparative law: the forces behind and the challenges ahead in the age of transnational harmonisation; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-53396-7
- 9786612533969
- 1-84980-321-8
- OCLC:
- 608478291
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