Comparative Law: A Very Short Introduction aims to offer a concise introduction to Comparative Law—its objectives, methods, concepts and uses. After an overview of the fundamental definitions, key concepts and basic lexicon of the discipline, the book proposes an analysis of the most successful techniques adopted in legal comparison for mapping the world's legal systems and for explaining legal change and diffusion of law, also giving a concise description of the legal traditions of the world.
It also offers an account of the competing approaches adopted over time in comparative endeavours, from functionalism to culturalism and postmodernism, and highlights the different emphasis placed by each of these approaches on commonalities, faith in universal law and convergence, or on divergence and irreducible differences. Finally, the book provides readers with an understanding of the practical use of comparative law, describing how legal comparison is employed both in law-making and in adjudication, supplementing legal reasoning and interpretation.
1:What is comparative law?
2:Classifying legal systems
3:Legal traditions
4:Methods and approaches
5:Sameness and difference
6:What for? The uses of comparative law
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"This slim volume by two Italian professors of comparative law is to be commended for what it distils into 130 very readable pages. The concise, clear prose provides room for practical examples." - Charles Clark, Law Society Gazette
ISBN : 9780192893390
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