Classics in comparative law [electronic resource] / Tom Ginsburg, Pier Giuseppe Monateri and Francesco Parisi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ginsburg, Tom.

Contributor:

Monateri, P. G. (Pier Giuseppe)

Parisi, Francesco, 1962-

Edward Elgar Publishing.

Series:

Elgar research reviews in law

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Comparative law.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 v.) ; cm.

Place of Publication:

Cheltenham : Edward Elgar Pub. Ltd., 2014.

Summary:

Comparative law is a field with a rich history, and one to which scholars from many disciplines have contributed. This four-volume set includes an original introduction by the editors, who trace the major developments in the field, covering both private and public law, as well as legal institutions and methodological debates. Encompassing more than a century of scholarship, the collection includes a number of the most enduring articles from several disciplinary perspectives and will be an essential resource for the study of comparative law.

Contents:

Recommended readings (Machine generated): Allen, Sir Carleton Kemp (1951), 'Precedent: Nature and History', in Law in the Making, Chapter III, 5th edition, Oxford, UK: Clarendon Press, 154-227

Atiyah, P.S. (1989), 'The Development of the Modern Law of Contract', in An Introduction to the Law of Contract, Chapter 1, 4th Edition, Oxford, UK and New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1-39

Banner, Stuart (1999), 'Two Properties, One Land: Law and Space in Nineteenth-Century New Zealand', Law and Social Inquiry, 24 (4), Autumn, 807-52

de Bary, Wm. Theodore (1995), 'The "Constitutional Tradition" in China', Columbia Journal of Asian Law, 9 (1), Spring, 7-34

Calabresi, Guido (1982), 'Interpretation', in A Common Law for the Age of Statutes, Chapter IV, Cambridge, MA and London, UK: Harvard University Press, 31-42, 203-17

Cappelletti, Mauro (1981), 'The Doctrine of Stare Decisis and the Civil Law: A Fundamental Difference - or no Difference at All?', in Herbert Bernstein, Ulrich Drobnig and Hein Kötz (eds), Festschrift für Konrad Zweigert zum 70. Geburtstag, Tübingen, Germany: J.C.B. Mohr (Paul Siebeck), 381-93

Chase, Oscar G. (2002), 'American "Exceptionalism" and Comparative Procedure', American Journal of Comparative Law, 50 (2), Spring, 277-301

Costantini, Cristiana (2010), 'The Keepers of Traditions: The English Common Lawyers and the Presence of Law', Comparative Law Review, 1 (2), 1-12

Damaška, Mirjan (1975), 'Structures of Authority and Comparative Criminal Procedure', Yale Law Journal, 84 (3), January, 480-544

Demsetz, Harold (1967), 'Toward a Theory of Property Rights', American Economic Review, 57 (2), May, 347-59

Djankov, Simeon, Rafael La Porta, Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes and Andrei Shleifer (2003), 'Courts', Quarterly Journal of Economics, 118 (2), May, 453-517

Elster, Jon (1995), 'Forces and Mechanisms in the Constitution-Making Process', Duke Law Journal, 45 (2), November, 364-96

Farnsworth, E. Allan (1962), 'Formation of International Sales Contracts: Three Attempts at Unification', University of Pennsylvania Law Review, 110 (3), January, 305-29

Ferejohn, John (1997), 'The Politics of Imperfection: The Amendment of Constitutions', Law and Social Inquiry, 22 (2), Spring, 501-30

Fleming, John G. (1984), 'Comparative Law of Torts', Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, 4 (2), Summer, 235-43

Fuller, Lon L. (1941), 'Consideration and Form', Columbia Law Review, 41 (5), May, 799-824

Gardbaum, Stephen (2001), 'The New Commonwealth Model of Constitutionalism', American Journal of Comparative Law, 49 (4), Autumn, 707-60

Gargarella, Roberto (2005), 'The Constitution of Inequality: Constitutionalism in the Americas, 1776- 1860', International Journal of Constitutional Law, 3 (1), January, 1-23

Garlicki, Lech (2007), 'Constitutional Courts versus Supreme Courts', International Journal of Constitutional Law, 5 (1), 44-68.

Gilmore, Grant (1974), 'Decline and Fall', in The Death of Contract, Chapter III, Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 61-93, references

Ginsburg, Tom (2002), 'Economic Analysis and the Design of Constitutional Courts', Theoretical Inquiries in Law, 3 (1), January, 49-85

Goodhart, A.L. (1934), 'Precedent in English and Continental Law', Law Quarterly Review, L (CXCVII), January, 40-65

Gordley, James (1981), 'Equality in Exchange', California Law Review, 69 (6), December, 1587-656

Gordley, James (2011), 'The Abuse of Rights in the Civil Law Tradition', in Rita de la Feria and Stefan Vogenauer (eds), Prohibition of Abuse of Law: A New General Principle of EU Law?, Chapter 4, Oxford, UK and Portland, OR: Hart Publishing, 33-46

Heller, Michael A. (1998), 'The Tragedy of the Anticommons: Property in the Transition from Marx to Markets', Harvard Law Review, 111 (3), January, 621-88

Horowitz, Donald L. (2002) 'Constitutional Design: Proposals versus Processes', in Andrew Reynolds (ed.), The Architecture of Democracy: Constitutional Design, Conflict Management, and Democracy, Chapter 1, Oxford, UK and New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 15-36, references

Kelsen, Hans (1942), 'Judicial Review of Legislation: A Comparative Study of the Austrian and the American Constitution', Journal of Politics, 4 (2), May, 183-200

Kommers, Donald P. (1991), 'German Constitutionalism: A Prolegomenon', Emory Law Journal, 40, 837-73

Langbein, John H. and Lloyd L. Weinreb (1978), 'Continental Criminal Procedure: "Myth" and Reality', Yale Law Journal, 87 (8), July, 1549-69

Langer, Máximo (2004), 'From Legal Transplants to Legal Translations: The Globalization of Plea Bargaining and the Americanization Thesis in Criminal Procedure', Harvard International Law Journal, 45 (1), Winter, 1-64

Lawson, Craig M. (1982), 'The Family Affinities of Common-Law and Civil-Law Legal Systems', Hastings International and Comparative Law Review, 6, 85-131

Levmore, Saul (1986), 'Rethinking Comparative Law: Variety and Uniformity in Ancient and Modern Tort Law', Tulane Law Review, 61 (2), December, 235-87

Llewellyn, Karl N. (1931), 'What Price Contract? - An Essay in Perspective', Yale Law Journal, 40 (5), March, 704-51

Lorenzen, Ernest G. (1919), 'Causa and Consideration in the Law of Contracts', Yale Law Journal, XXVIII (7), May, 621-46

Malmström, Åke (1969), 'The System of Legal Systems: Notes on a Problem of Classification in Comparative Law', Scandinavian Studies in Law, 13, 127, 130-49

Markesinis, B.S. (1978), 'Cause and Consideration: A Study in Parallel', Cambridge Law Journal, 37 (1), April, 53-75

von Mehren, Arthur T. (1959), 'Civil-Law Analogues to Consideration: An Exercise in Comparative Analysis', Harvard Law Review, 72 (6), April, 1009-78

Metzger, Ernest (2004), 'Roman Judges, Case Law, and Principles of Procedure', Law and History Review, 22 (2), Summer, 243-75.

Monateri, Pier Giuseppe (2000), 'Black Gaius: A Quest for the Multicultural Origins of the "Western Legal Tradition"', Hastings Law Journal, 51, 479-555

Parisi, Francesco (1994), 'Alterum non Laedere: An Intellectual History of Civil Liability', American Journal of Jurisprudence, 39, 317-51

La Porta, Rafael, Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes and Andrei Shleifer (2008), 'The Economic Consequences of Legal Origins', Journal of Economic Literature, 46 (2), June, 285-332

Pound, Roscoe (1964), 'Justice According to Law', in Essays on Jurisprudence from the Columbia Law Review, New York, NY and London, UK: Columbia University Press, 217-79

Radin, Max (1964), 'Case Law and Stare Decisis: Concerning Präjudizienrecht in Amerika', in Essays on Jurisprudence from the Columbia Law Review, New York, NY and London, UK: Columbia University Press, 3-16

Ramseyer, J. Mark (1994), 'The Puzzling (In)Dependence of Courts: A Comparative Approach', Journal of Legal Studies, 23 (2), June, 721-47

Reich, Charles A. (1964), 'The New Property', Yale Law Journal, 73 (5), April, 733-87

Rose, Carol M. (1985), 'Possession as the Origin of Property', University of Chicago Law Review, 52 (1), Winter, 73-88

Rosenn, Keith S. (1974), 'Judicial Review in Latin America', Ohio State Law Journal, 35, 785-819

Rudden, Bernard (1994), 'Things as Thing and Things as Wealth', Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, 14 (1), Spring, 81-97

Ruskola, Teemu (2002), 'Legal Orientalism', Michigan Law Review, 101 (1), October, 179-234

Shapiro, Martin (1981), 'The Prototype of Courts', in Courts: A Comparative and Political Analysis, Chapter 1, Chicago, IL and London, UK: University of Chicago Press, 1-64, 223-26

Sherwin, Richard K. (2008), 'Sublime Jurisprudence: On the Ethical Education of the Legal Imagination in Our Time', Chicago-Kent Law Review, 83 (3), 1157-96

Stein, Peter G. (1992), 'Roman Law, Common Law, and Civil Law', Tulane Law Review, 66 (5), May, 1591-603

Stewart, Richard B. (1987), 'Crisis in Tort Law? The Institutional Perspective', University of Chicago Law Review, 54 (1), Winter, 184-99

Stone, Julius (1959), 'The Ratio of the Ratio Decidendi', Modern Law Review, 22 (6), November, 597-620

Stone Sweet, Alec (1999), 'Judicialization and the Construction of Governance', Comparative Political Studies, 32 (2), April, 147-84

Watson, Alan (1988), 'The Law of Delict and Quasi-Delict on the French Code Civil', in Failures of the Legal Imagination, Chapter 1, Edinburgh, UK: Scottish Academic Press, 1-33

Weiler, J.H.H. (1991), 'The Transformation of Europe', Yale Law Journal, 100 (8), June, 2403-83.

White, G. Edward (2003), 'The Intellectual Origins of Torts in America', in Tort Law in America: An Intellectual History, Chapter 1, Oxford, UK and New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 3-19, 339-45

Sir Frederick Pollock, Bart. (1903), 'The History of Comparative Jurisprudence', Journal of the Society of Comparative Legislation, 5 (1), 74-89

Roscoe Pound (1955), 'Comparative Law in Space and Time', American Journal of Comparative Law, 4 (1), Winter, 70-84

Alan Watson (2000), 'Law Out of Context', Edinburgh Law Review, 4 (2), May, 147-67

O. Kahn-Freund (1974), 'On Uses and Misuses of Comparative Law', Modern Law Review, 37 (1), January, 1-27

H.C. Gutteridge ([1949] 1971), 'The Process of Comparison', in Comparative Law: An Introduction to the Comparative Method of Legal Study and Research, Chapter VI, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 72-87

Alan Watson (1993), 'Comparative Law as an Academic Discipline', 'The Perils of Comparative Law', 'The Virtues of Comparative Law', in Legal Transplants: An Approach to Comparative Law - Second Edition, Chapters 1-3, Athens, GA and London, UK: University of Georgia Press, 1-20

Pierre Legrand (1997), 'The Impossibility of "Legal Transplants"', Maastricht Journal of European and Comparative Law, 4, 111-24

Roderick A. Macdonald (1985), 'Understanding Civil Law Scholarship in Quebec', Osgoode Hall Law Journal, 23 (4), 573-608

A.N. Yiannopoulos (1980), 'Louisiana Civil Law: A Lost Cause?', Tulane Law Review, 54 (3), April, 830-48

Edward M. Wise (1990), 'The Transplant of Legal Patterns', American Journal of Comparative Law: Supplement. U.S. Law in an Era of Democratization, 38, 1-22

Duncan Kennedy (2006), 'Three Globalizations of Law and Legal Thought: 1850-2000', in David M. Trubek and Alvaro Santos (eds), The New Law and Economic Development: A Critical Appraisal, Chapter 2, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 19-73

William Twining (2004), 'Diffusion of Law: A Global Perspective', Journal of Legal Pluralism, 49, 1-45

Pierre Legrand (1996), 'European Legal Systems Are Not Converging', International and Comparative Law Quarterly, 45 (1), January, 52-81

E. Adamson Hoebel (1954), 'The Cultural Background of Law', in The Law of Primitive Man: A Study in Comparative Legal Dynamics, Chapter 1, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 3-17, references

Richard A. Posner (1980), 'A Theory of Primitive Society, with Special Reference to Law', Journal of Law and Economics, XXIII (1), April, 1-53

Francesco Parisi (2001), 'The Genesis of Liability in Ancient Law', American Law and Economics Review, 3 (1), Spring, 82-124

David Friedman (1979), 'Private Creation and Enforcement of Law: A Historical Case', Journal of Legal Studies, 8 (2), March, 399-415

Clifford Geertz (1983), 'Local Knowledge: Fact and Law in Comparative Perspective', in Local Knowledge: Further Essays in Interpretive Anthropology, Chapter 8, New York, NY: Basic Books, Inc., 167-234

Peter G. Stein (1992), 'Roman Law, Common Law, and Civil Law', Tulane Law Review, 66 (5), May, 1591-603

Craig M. Lawson (1982), 'The Family Affinities of Common-Law and Civil-Law Legal Systems', Hastings International and Comparative Law Review, 6, 85-131

Teemu Ruskola (2002), 'Legal Orientalism', Michigan Law Review, 101 (1), October, 179-234

Åke Malmström (1969), 'The System of Legal Systems: Notes on a Problem of Classification in Comparative Law', Scandinavian Studies in Law, 13, 127, 129-49

P.G. Monateri (2000), 'Black Gaius: A Quest for the Multicultural Origins of the "Western Legal Tradition"', Hastings Law Journal, 51 (3), March, 479-555

Rafael La Porta, Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes and Andrei Shleifer (2008), 'The Economic Consequences of Legal Origins', Journal of Economic Literature, 46 (2), June, 285-332

Max Radin (1964), 'Case Law and Stare Decisis: Concerning Präjudizienrecht in Amerika', in Essays on Jurisprudence from the Columbia Law Review, New York, NY and London, UK: Columbia University Press, 3-16

Roscoe Pound (1964), 'Justice According to Law', in Essays on Jurisprudence from the Columbia Law Review, New York, NY and London, UK: Columbia University Press, 217-79

Guido Calabresi (1982), 'Interpretation', in A Common Law for the Age of Statutes, Chapter IV, Cambridge, MA and London, UK: Harvard University Press, 31-43, 203-17

Richard K. Sherwin (2008), 'Sublime Jurisprudence: On the Ethical Education of the Legal Imagination in Our Time', Chicago-Kent Law Review, 83 (3), June, 1157-96

Cristina Costantini (2010), 'The Keepers of Traditions: The English Common Lawyers and the Presence of Law', Comparative Law Review, 1 (2), Fall, 1-12

Mauro Cappelletti (1981), 'The Doctrine of Stare Decisis and the Civil Law: A Fundamental Difference - or no Difference at All?', in Herbert Bernstein, Ulrich Drobnig and Hein Kötz (eds), Festschrift für Konrad Zweigert zum 70. Geburtstag, Tübingen, Germany: J.C.B. Mohr (Paul Siebeck), 381-93

A.L. Goodhart (1934), 'Precedent in English and Continental Law', Law Quarterly Review, L (CXCVII), January, 40-65

Julius Stone (1959), 'The Ratio of the Ratio Decidendi', Modern Law Review, 22 (6), November, 597-620

Carleton Kemp Allen (1951), 'Precedent: Nature and History', in Law in the Making - Fifth Edition, Chapter III, Oxford, UK: Clarendon Press, 154-227

J. Mark Ramseyer (1994), 'The Puzzling (In)Dependence of Courts: A Comparative Approach', Journal of Legal Studies, XXIII (2), June, 721-47

Alec Stone Sweet (1999), 'Judicialization and the Construction of Governance', Comparative Political Studies, 32 (2), April, 147-84

Lech Garlicki (2007), 'Constitutional Courts versus Supreme Courts', International Journal of Constitutional Law, 5 (1), January, 44-68

Tom Ginsburg (2002), 'Economic Analysis and the Design of Constitutional Courts', Theoretical Inquiries in Law, 3 (1), January, 49-85

Martin Shapiro (1981), 'The Prototype of Courts', in Courts: A Comparative and Political Analysis, Chapter 1, Chicago, IL and London, UK: University of Chicago Press, 1-64, 223-26

Roberto Gargarella (2005), 'The Constitution of Inequality. Constitutionalism in the Americas, 1776-1860', International Journal of Constitutional Law, 3 (1), January, 1-23

Carol M. Rose (1985), 'Possession as the Origin of Property', University of Chicago Law Review, 52 (1), Winter, 73-88

Harold Demsetz (1967), 'Toward a Theory of Property Rights', American Economic Review, 57 (2), May, 347-59

James Gordley (2011), 'The Abuse of Rights in the Civil Law Tradition', in Rita de la Feria and Stefan Vogenauer (eds), Prohibition of Abuse of Law: A New General Principle of EU Law?, Chapter 4, Oxford, UK and Portland, OR: Hart Publishing, 33-46

Bernard Rudden (1994), 'Things as Thing and Things as Wealth', Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, 14 (1), Spring, 81-97

Charles A. Reich (1964), 'The New Property', Yale Law Journal, 73 (5), April, 733-87

Stuart Banner (1999), 'Two Properties, One Land: Law and Space in Nineteenth-Century New Zealand', Law and Social Inquiry, 24 (4), Autumn, 807-52

Michael A. Heller (1998), 'The Tragedy of the Anticommons: Property in the Transition from Marx to Markets', Harvard Law Review, 111 (3), January, 621-88

P.S. Atiyah (1989), 'The Development of the Modern Law of Contract', in An Introduction to the Law of Contract - Fourth Edition, Chapter I, Oxford, UK and New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1-39

Arthur T. von Mehren (1959), 'Civil-Law Analogues to Consideration: An Exercise in Comparative Analysis', Harvard Law Review, 72 (6), April, 1009-78

B.S. Markesinis (1978), 'Cause and Consideration: A Study in Parallel', Cambridge Law Journal, 37 (1), April, 53-75

Ernest G. Lorenzen (1919), 'Causa and Consideration in the Law of Contracts', Yale Law Journal, XXVIII (7), May, 621-46

Lon L. Fuller (1941), 'Consideration and Form', Columbia Law Review, 41 (5), May, 799-824

Karl N. Llewellyn (1931), 'What Price Contract? - An Essay in Perspective', Yale Law Journal, 40 (5), March, 704-51

Grant Gilmore (1974), 'Decline and Fall', in The Death of Contract, Chapter III, Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 61-93, 127-40

James Gordley (1981), 'Equality in Exchange', California Law Review, 69 (6), December, 1587-656

E. Allan Farnsworth (1962), 'Formation of International Sales Contracts: Three Attempts at Unification', University of Pennsylvania Law Review, 110 (3), January, 305-29

Francesco Parisi (1994), 'Alterum non Laedere: An Intellectual History of Civil Liability', American Journal of Jurisprudence, 39 (1), 317-51

Saul Levmore (1986), 'Rethinking Comparative Law: Variety and Uniformity in Ancient and Modern Tort Law', Tulane Law Review, 61 (2), December, 235-87

G. Edward White (2003), 'The Intellectual Origins of Torts in America', in Tort Law in America: An Intellectual History, Chapter 1, Oxford, UK and New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 3-19, 339-45

Alan Watson (1988), 'The Law of Delict and Quasi-Delict in the French Code Civil', in Failures of the Legal Imagination, Chapter 1, Edinburgh, UK: Scottish Academic Press, 1-33

Richard B. Stewart (1987), 'Crisis in Tort Law? The Institutional Perspective', University of Chicago Law Review, 54 (1), Winter, 184-99

John G. Fleming (1984), 'Comparative Law of Torts', Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, 4 (2), Summer, 235-43

Jon Elster (1995), 'Forces and Mechanisms in the Constitution-Making Process', Duke Law Journal, 45 (2), November, 364-96

Donald L. Horowitz (2002), 'Constitutional Design: Proposals versus Processes', in Andrew Reynolds (ed.), The Architecture of Democracy: Constitutional Design, Conflict Management, and Democracy, Chapter 1, Oxford, UK and New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 15-36, references

Stephen Gardbaum (2001), 'The New Commonwealth Model of Constitutionalism', American Journal of Comparative Law, 49 (4), Autumn, 707-60

Donald P. Kommers (1991), 'German Constitutionalism: A Prolegomenon', Emory Law Journal, 40, 837-73

Wm. Theodore de Bary (1995), 'The "Constitutional Tradition" in China', Journal of Chinese Law, 9 (1), Spring, 7-34

John Ferejohn (1997), 'The Politics of Imperfection: The Amendment of Constitutions', Law and Social Inquiry, 22 (2), Spring, 501-30

Hans Kelsen (1942), 'Judicial Review of Legislation: A Comparative Study of the Austrian and the American Constitution', Journal of Politics, 4 (2), May, 183-200

Keith S. Rosenn (1974), 'Judicial Review in Latin America', Ohio State Law Journal, 35, 785-819

J.H.H. Weiler (1991), 'The Transformation of Europe', Yale Law Journal, 100 (8), June, 2403-83

Ernest Metzger (2004), 'Roman Judges, Case Law, and Principles of Procedure', Law and History Review, 22 (2), Summer, 243-75

Oscar G. Chase (2002), 'American "Exceptionalism" and Comparative Procedure', American Journal of Comparative Law, 50 (2), Spring, 277-301

Simeon Djankov, Rafael La Porta, Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes and Andrei Shleifer (2003), 'Courts', Quarterly Journal of Economics, 118 (2), May, 453-517

Mirjan Damaška (1975), 'Structures of Authority and Comparative Criminal Procedure', Yale Law Journal, 84 (3), January, 480-544

Máximo Langer (2004), 'From Legal Transplants to Legal Translations: The Globalization of Plea Bargaining and the Americanization Thesis in Criminal Procedure', Harvard International Law Journal, 45 (1), Winter, 1-64

John H. Langbein and Lloyd L. Weinreb (1978), 'Continental Criminal Procedure: "Myth" and Reality', Yale Law Journal, 87 (8), July, 1549-69

Notes:

The recommended readings are available in the print version, or may be available via the link to your library's holdings.

Description based on online resource; title from title screen (viewed January 14, 2015).

ISBN:

1-78471-339-2