Global Legal Indicators and Comparative Law - The Factory of Indexes

In recent times, comparative law has moved towards a new type of visualisation of the law, which is mainly based on indexes and indicators. This book critically analyses this 'quantitative turn' in comparative law.

List of contents

Introduction: Framing and Ranking the Law from "the Outside" 1. Legal Indicators: The Law as an 'Output' 2. A Scientific State of Mind: The Onset of Legal Indicators 3. Legal Indicators and Constitutional Governance 4. The International Financial Architecture: Financial History and Evolution 5. The Benchmarks of International Insolvency Law 6. Conclusions

About the author

Daniele D'Alvia is Lecturer in Banking and Finance Law at CCLS, Queen Mary University of London, UK, and Associate Researcher at the European Banking Institute in Frankfurt, Germany.
Matteo Nicolini is Associate Professor of Comparative Public Law in the Department of Law at the University of Verona, Italy; Visiting Lecturer at the Newcastle University Law School, UK; and External Partner of the Centre for the Study of Law in Theory and Practice (LTAP) at Liverpool John Moores University, UK.

Product details

• Authors: Daniele D'Alvia, Daniele (Queen Mary University of London D''alvia, Matteo Nicolini
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2025
• EAN: 9781032302843
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3230284-3
• No. of pages: 176
• Series: Globalization: Law and Policy
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Mercantile and commercial law; LAW / General, LAW / Jurisprudence, LAW / Comparative, International Relations, Systems of law, comparative law, Social Law, Constitutional & administrative law, Constitutional and administrative law: general, Jurisprudence & Philosophy Of Law, Methods, theory and philosophy of law, Social law and Medical law