The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Law, 2nd Edition

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This fully revised and updated second edition of The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Law provides a wide-ranging and diverse critical survey of comparative law at the beginning of the twenty-first century. It summarizes and evaluates a discipline that is time-honoured but not easily understood in all its dimensions. In the current era of globalization, this discipline is more relevant than ever, both on the academic and on the practical level.

The Handbook is divided into three main sections. Section I surveys how comparative law has developed and where it stands today in various parts of the world. This includes not only traditional model jurisdictions, such as France, Germany, and the United States, but also other regions like Eastern Europe, East Asia, and Latin America. Section II then discusses the major approaches to comparative law - its methods, goals, and its relationship with other fields, such as legal history, economics, and linguistics. Finally, section III deals with the status of comparative studies in over a dozen subject matter areas, including the major categories of private, economic, public, and criminal law.

The Handbook contains forty-eight chapters written by experts from around the world. The aim of each chapter is to provide an accessible, original, and critical account of the current state of comparative law in its respective area which will help to shape the agenda in the years to come. Each chapter also includes a short bibliography referencing the definitive works in the field.
Charles Donahue: Introduction: Comparative Law Before the Code Napoléon

I The Development of Comparative Law in the World

1: Benédicte Fauvarque-Cosson: Development of Comparative Law in France

2: Ingeborg Schwenzer: Development of Comparative Law in Germany, Switzerland, and Austria

3: Elisabetta Grande: Development of Comparative Law in Italy

4: John Cairns: Development of Comparative Law in Great Britain

5: David Clarke: Development of Comparative Law in the United States

6: Zdenke Kühn: Development of Comparative Law in Eastern Europe

7: Zentaro Kitagawa: Development of Comparative Law in East Asia

8: Jan Kleinheisterkamp: Development of Comparative Law in Latin America

II Approaches to Comparative Law

9: Nils Jansen: Comparative Law Within the Field of Comparative Disciplines

10: Ralf Michaels: The Functional Method of Comparative Law

11: Gerhard Dannemann: Comparative Law: Study of Similarities or Differences?

12: Patrick Glenn: Comparative Legal Families and Comparative Legal Traditions

13: Michaele Graziadei: Comparative Law as the Study of Transplants and Receptions

14: Jacques du Plessis: Comparative Law and the Study of Mixed Legal Systems

15: Jan Smits: Comparative Law and its Influence on National Legal Systems

16: Reinhard Zimmermann: Comparative Law and the Europeanization of Private Law

17: Horatia Muir Watt: Comparative Law and the Process of Globalization

18: Chibli Mallat: Comparative Law and the Islamic Legal Culture

19: Tom Bennett: Comparative Law and African Customary Law

20: Vivian G. Curran: Comparative Law and Language

21: Roger Cotterrell: Comparative Law and Legal Culture

22: Harold J. Berman: Comparative Law and Religion

23: James Gordley: Comparative Law and Legal History

24: Annelise Riles: Comparative Law and Socio-Legal Studies

25: Ugo Mattei: Comparative Law and Critical Legal Studies

26: Florian Faust: Comparative Law and Economic Analysis of Law

III Subject Areas

27: Stefan Vogenauer: Sources of Law and Legal Method in Comparative Law

28: Alan Farnsworth: Comparative Contract Law

29: Peter Huber: Comparative Sales Law

30: Daniel Visser: Unjustified Enrichment in Comparative Perspective

31: Gerhard Wagner: Comparative Tort Law

32: Sjef van Erp: Comparative Property Law

33: Marius de Waal: Comparative Succession Law

34: Harry Krause: Comparative Family Law

35: Matthew Finkin: Comparative Labour Law

36: Klaus J. Hopt: Comparative Company Law

37: David Gerber: Comparative Antitrust Law

38: Mark Tushnet: Comparative Constitutional Law

39: John Bell: Comparative Administrative Law

40: Markus Dubber: Comparative Criminal Law

41: Joachim Zekoll: Comparative Civil Procedure

42: Mathias Reimann: Comparative Law and Private International Law
Edited by Mathias Reimann, Hessel E. Yntema Professor of Law, The University of Michigan, and Reinhard Zimmermann, Director of the Max Planck Institute for Foreign Private and Private International Law, Hamburg; Professor of Private Law, Roman Law and Comparative Legal History, University of Regensburg
Contributors:

Charles Donahue,
Harvard University

Benédicte Fauvarque-Cosson,
University Pantheon-Assas (Paris II)

Ingeborg Schwenzer,
University of Basel, Switzerland

Elisabetta Grande,
University of Piemonte Orientale, Alessandria, Italy

John Cairns,
University of Edinburgh

David S. Clark,
Willamette University, Salem, Oregon

Zdenke Kühn,
Charles University, Prague

Zentaro Kitagawa,
University of Kyoto

Jan Kleinheisterkamp,
HEC School of Management, Paris

Nils Jansen,
Westfoelische Wilhelms-Universitat Munster

Ralf Michaels,
Duke University

Gerhard Dannemann,
Humboldt University, Berlin

H. Patrick Glenn,
McGill University, Montreal

Michaele Graziadei,
University of Piemonte Orientale, Alessandria, Italy

Jacques du Plessis,
University of Stellenbosch

Jan Smits,
University of Maastricht

Reinhard Zimmermann,
Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, Hamburg

Horatia Muir Watt,
University Pantheon-Sorbonne (Paris I)

Chibli Mallat,
St. Joseph's University, Beirut

Tom Bennett,
University of Cape Town

Vivian G. Curran,
University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Roger Cotterrell,
Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London

Harold J. Berman,
Emory University, Atlanta

James Gordley,
University of California at Berkeley

Annelise Riles,
Cornell University

Ugo Mattei,
University of California at Hastings and University of Turin

Florian Faust,
Bucerius Law School, Hamburg

Stefan Vogenauer,
Brasenose College, Oxford

E. Alan Farnsworth,
Columbia University

Peter Huber,
Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz

Daniel Visser,
University of Cape Town

Gerhard Wagner,
University of Bonn

Sjef van Erp,
University of Maastricht

Marius de Waal,
University of Stellenbosch

Harry Krause,
University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana

Matthew Finkin,
University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana

Klaus J. Hopt,
Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, Hamburg

David Gerber,
Chicago-Kent College of Law

Mark Tushnet,
Harvard Law School

John Bell,
Pembroke College, Cambridge

Markus Dubber,
State University of New York, Buffalo

Joachim Zekoll,
Johann Wofgang Goethe University, Frankfurt and Tulane University

Mathias Reimann,
University of Michigan, Ann Arbour