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The Cambridge Companion to Comparative Law

Author: Mauro Bussani; Ugo Mattei
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521720052
Published In: August 2012
Format: Paperback , 422 pages
Jurisdiction: International ? Disclaimer:
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We can only claim to understand another legal system when we know the context surrounding the positive law in which lawyers are trained. To avoid ethnocentricity and superficiality, we must go beyond judicial decisions, doctrinal writings and the black-letter law of codes and statutes and probe the 'deeper structures' where law meets cultural, political, socio-economic factors. It is only when we acquire such awareness and knowledge of the critical factors affecting both the backgrounds and implications of rules that it becomes possible to control the present and possibly future developments of the world's legal institutions. This collection of essays aims to provide the reader with a fundamental understanding of the dynamic relationship between the law and its cultural, political and socio-economic context.

• Improves the readers' awareness of both the historical backgrounds and actual implications of comparative law methodology

• Examines current and possible future developments of legal institutions and issues affecting legal life of private, business and public actors

• Provides scholars and students with a reasonable size and user friendly reservoir of legal perspectives

List of contributors	vii
List of abbreviations	xi
Preface	1
Part I Knowing comparative law	11
1 Comparative law and neighbouring disciplines Mathias Reimann	13
2 Political ideology and comparative law Duncan Kennedy	35
3 Economic analysis and comparative law Nuno Garoupa and Tom Ginsburg	57
4 Comparative law and anthropology Lawrence Rosen	73
5 Comparative law and language Barbara Pozzo	88
Part II Comparative law fields	115
6 Comparative studies in private law Franz Werro	117
7 Comparative administrative law Francesca Bignami	145
8 Comparative constitutional law Günter Frankenberg	171
9 Comparative criminal justice Elisabetta Grande	191
10 Comparative civil justice Oscar G. Chase and Vincenzo Varano	210
11 Comparative law and international organizations George A. Bermann	241
Part III Comparative law in the flux of civilizations	255
12 The East Asian legal tradition Teemu Ruskola	257
13 The Jewish legal tradition J. David Bleich and Arthur J. Jacobson	278
14 The Islamic legal tradition Khaled Abou El Fadl	295
15 The sub-Saharan legal tradition Rodolfo Sacco	313
16 The Latin American and Caribbean legal traditions Diego López-Medina	344
17 Mixed legal systems Vernon Valentine Palmer	368
18 Democracy and the Western legal tradition Mauro Bussani	384
Index	397