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Comparative law / Mathias Siems.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Law in contextPublication details: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2014.Description: xx, 416 p. : ill. ; 26 cmISBN:
  • 9780521177177 (paperback)
  • 0521177170 (paperback)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 22 340.2 SIE
Incomplete contents:
Introduction -- Part I. Traditional Comparative Law -- The comparative legal method -- Common law and civil law -- Mapping the world's legal systems; Part II. Extending the Methods of Comparative Law -- Postmodern comparative law -- Socio-legal comparative law -- Numerical comparative law -- Part III: Global Comparative Law -- Legal transplants -- Fading state borders -- Comparative law and development -- Part IV. Comparative Law as an Open Subject -- Implicit comparative law -- Outlook.
Summary: "This book presents a fresh contextualised and cosmopolitan perspective on comparative law for both students and scholars. It critically discusses established approaches to comparative law, but also presents more modern ones, such as socio-legal and numerical comparative law. Its contextualised approach draws on examples from politics, economics and development studies to provide an original contribution to topics of comparative law"--Summary: "This book presents a fresh contextualised and cosmopolitan perspective on comparative law for both students and scholars. It critically discusses established approaches to comparative law, but also presents more modern ones, such as socio-legal and numerical comparative law. Its con-textualised approach draws on examples from politics, eco-nomics and development studies to provide an original con-tribution to topics of comparative law"--
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Index : p. [401]-416.

Bibliography : p. 318-400.

Introduction -- Part I. Traditional Comparative Law -- The comparative legal method -- Common law and civil law -- Mapping the world's legal systems; Part II. Extending the Methods of Comparative Law -- Postmodern comparative law -- Socio-legal comparative law -- Numerical comparative law -- Part III: Global Comparative Law -- Legal transplants -- Fading state borders -- Comparative law and development -- Part IV. Comparative Law as an Open Subject -- Implicit comparative law -- Outlook.

"This book presents a fresh contextualised and cosmopolitan perspective on comparative law for both students and scholars. It critically discusses established approaches to comparative law, but also presents more modern ones, such as socio-legal and numerical comparative law. Its contextualised approach draws on examples from politics, economics and development studies to provide an original contribution to topics of comparative law"--

"This book presents a fresh contextualised and cosmopolitan perspective on comparative law for both students and scholars. It critically discusses established approaches to comparative law, but also presents more modern ones, such as socio-legal and numerical comparative law. Its con-textualised approach draws on examples from politics, eco-nomics and development studies to provide an original con-tribution to topics of comparative law"--

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