Comparative Legal Studies

Informationen zum Autor PIERRE LEGRAND teaches law at the Sorbonne. RODERICK MUNDAY teaches law at the University of Cambridge. Klappentext This 2003 text examines comparative law's intellectual traditions! the strengths and failings of its methodologies and its future directions. Zusammenfassung Leading international comparatists offer an authoritative review of comparative legal studies. Essays examine comparative law's intellectual traditions! the strengths and failings of its methodologies and its future directions. This 2003 text is quite simply a book with which anyone embarking on comparative legal studies will have to engage. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction: accounting for an encounter Roderick Munday; Part I. Comparative Legal Studies and its Legacies: 2. The universalist heritage James Gordley; 3. The colonialist heritage Upendra Baxi; 4. The nationalist heritage H. Patrick Glenn; 5. The functionalist heritage Michele Graziadei; Part II. Comparative Legal Studies and its Boundaries: 6. Comparatists and sociology Roger Cotterrell; 7. Comparatists and languages Bernhard Großfeld; Part III. Comparative Legal Studies and its Theories: 8. The question of understanding Mitchel Lasser; 9. The same and the different Pierre Legrand; 10. The neo-romantic turn James Whitman; 11. The methods and the politics David Kennedy; Part IV. Comparative Legal Studies and its Futures: 12. Comparatists and transferability David Nelken; 13. Comparatists and extraordinary places Esin Örücü Conclusion; 14. Beyond compare Lawrence Rosen; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Pierre Legrand, Roderick Munday
• Assisted by: Pierre Legrand (Editor), Legrand Pierre (Editor), Roderick Munday (Editor), Munday Roderick (Editor), Legrand Pierre (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2003
• EAN: 9780521818117
• ISBN: 978-0-521-81811-7
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 235 mm x 37 mm
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; LAW / Comparative, comparative law