Rethinking Comparative Law

Author: Simone Glanert; Alexandra Mercescu; Geoffrey Samuel
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN: 9781786439468
Published In: October 2021
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
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As law’s institutional configurations stand, comparative law is a relatively new discipline. The first specialized journals and chairs, for example, go back a mere two hundred years or so. Yet, in its two centuries of institutional existence, comparative law has been the focus of much thinking, mostly by comparatists themselves reflecting on their practice. Indeed, some of this thinking came firmly to establish itself as a governing epistemology within the field.

This book holds that the time has nonetheless come, even for such a young discipline as comparative law, to engage in a re-thinking of its intellectual ways. Specifically, three comparatists hailing from different horizons investigate various assumptions and lines of reasoning that must invite reconsideration. The principal ambition informing the work is to optimize the interpretive rewards that the comparison of laws is in a position to generate.

Not limited to a particular country or jurisdiction, Rethinking Comparative Law aims to attract a large audience comprising students and scholars from various cultural backgrounds. Undergraduate and postgraduate law students and lawyers with an interest in comparative law will find the book helpful for a better appreciation of the many implications arising from the increased interaction with foreign law in a globalizing world.

Introduction

1. The epistemological challenge: does law exist?

2. The comparatist and the illusion of autonomy

3. Methodology and comparative law: programme orientations

4. Method as deception

5. Comparisons otherwise: the merits of interdisciplinarity

6. Comparing comparisons

7. On the untranslatability of laws

8. The corrida, for example: how comparative understanding fares

9. How far culture? A critical examination of cultural defences

10. Comparison in action: on the beach

11. Quantifying law? ‘Legal origins’ or ‘doing business’ as usual