Comparing Law - Comparative Law As Reconstruction of Collective Commitments

Reconstructs existing comparative law scholarship into a coherent analytic framework so as to both fend off current charges of theoretical arbitrariness and guide future work.

List of contents

Prologue: the 'malaise' of comparative law; 1. Law; 2. Legal systems; 3. Engaging with legal systems - epistemology; 4. Delineating legal systems - geography; 5. Comparing legal systems - methodology; Epilogue: the 'academic discipline' of comparative law.

About the author

Catherine Valcke is Full Professor, Faculty of Law at the University of Toronto. She has taught, lectured and published on comparative law, comparative law theory and legal theory worldwide, including in such journals as Nomos, The American Journal of Comparative Law, Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, Yale Journal of International Law, European Review of Private Law, and Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence. Her work on English and French contract law, in particular, was recently cited as 'illuminating' by the English House of Lords. An elected member of the International Academy of Comparative Law, she has acted as National Reporter for Canada to the Congress of the Academy.

Summary

Comparing Law will appeal to all involved in comparative legal research, theorists and practitioners, both seasoned or beginners. This book provides an intellectually and linguistically accessible analytic framework for comparative law, one that serves to both redeem the existing scholarship and offer guidance for future work.

Product details

• Authors: Catherine Valcke, Catherine (University of Toronto) Valcke, Valcke Catherine
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2018
• EAN: 9781108470063
• ISBN: 978-1-108-47006-3
• No. of pages: 242
• Series: Ascl Studies in Comparative La; ASCL Studies in Comparative Law; ASCL Studies in Comparative Law; Ascl Studies in Comparative La
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; LAW / Comparative, comparative law, Jurisprudence & Philosophy Of Law, Methods, theory and philosophy of law