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Comparative Law offers a thorough grounding in the subject for students and scholars alike, covering essential academic discussions and comparative law methodology. It critically debates both traditional and modern approaches to the discipline and uses examples from a range of jurisdictions to give the reader a truly global perspective. Its contextualised and interdisciplinary approach draws on examples from politics, economics and other social sciences to provide an original contribution to topics of comparative law. This new third edition is fully revised to reflect developments in the scholarship and includes two new chapters, balancing the book's structure between comparative law of the past, present and future. Suitable for students taking courses in comparative law and related fields, this book offers a fresh and cosmopolitan perspective on the subject.
List of contents
List of figures; List of tables; Preface; List of abbreviations; 1. Introduction; Part I. Traditional Comparative Law; 2. The comparative legal method; 3. Common law and Civil law; 4. Mapping the world's legal systems; 5. The diffusion of legal traditions; Part II. Extending the Methods of Comparative Law; 6. Postmodern comparative law; 7. Socio-legal comparative law; 8. Numerical comparative law; 9. Empirical comparative law; Part III. Global Comparative Law; 10. Legal transplants and convergence; 11. Comparative regional and international law; 12. From transnational law to global law; 13. Comparative law and development; Part IV. Comparative Law as an Open Subject; 14. Implicit comparative law; 15. Reflections and outlook; References; Index.
About the author
Mathias Siems is Professor of Private Law and Market Regulation at the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence, Italy. Previously, he taught at Durham University, the University of East Anglia, the University of Edinburgh and the Riga Graduate School of Law. He was also a Fulbright scholar at Harvard Law School, and a Jean Monnet fellow at the EUI. He is a graduate of the Universities of Munich and Edinburgh.
Summary
Comparative Law offers a fresh, contextualised and sophisticated perspective on the discipline for students and scholars, covering essential academic discussions and comparative law methodology. Critically debating both traditional and modern approaches, the new edition is updated with recent scholarship and includes two new chapters.
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Presents a fresh, contextualised and sophisticated perspective on comparative law for both students and scholars.
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'The publication of the third edition of Mathias Siems' excellent Comparative Law is to be greatly welcomed by students and comparative law scholars alike. Siems provides not only clear guidance to the methodology and essential contemporary debates of comparative law, but a truly global perspective.' Professor Paula Giliker, University of Bristol, UK
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'The publication of the third edition of Mathias Siems' excellent Comparative Law is to be greatly welcomed by students and comparative law scholars alike. Siems provides not only clear guidance to the methodology and essential contemporary debates of comparative law, but a truly global perspective.' Professor Paula Giliker, University of Bristol, UK
