Comparative Law
3rd Edition
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- Author: Mathias Siems, European University Institute, Florence
- Date Published: June 2022
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- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781108744058
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Comparative Law offers a thorough grounding in the subject for students and scholars alike, covering essential academic discussions and comparative law methodology. It critically debates both traditional and modern approaches to the discipline and uses examples from a range of jurisdictions to give the reader a truly global perspective. Its contextualised and interdisciplinary approach draws on examples from politics, economics and other social sciences to provide an original contribution to topics of comparative law. This new third edition is fully revised to reflect developments in the scholarship and includes two new chapters, balancing the book's structure between comparative law of the past, present and future. Suitable for students taking courses in comparative law and related fields, this book offers a fresh and cosmopolitan perspective on the subject.
Read more- Employs an interdisciplinary perspective, allowing students to reflect on the relationship between legal and other methods in various countries, societies and cultures
- Analyses global comparative law, giving students a richer under-standing of multi-level legal orders
- Introduces the major legal systems in the world and gives students the tools for further study without overwhelming them with superfluous detail
- Discusses the pros and cons of various methods of comparative law, giving students the necessary information to develop their own positions
Reviews & endorsements
‘The publication of the third edition of Mathias Siems’ excellent Comparative Law is to be greatly welcomed by students and comparative law scholars alike. Siems provides not only clear guidance to the methodology and essential contemporary debates of comparative law, but a truly global perspective.’ Paula Giliker, University of Bristol
See more reviews‘With its attention to postmodern, socio-legal and numerical approaches to comparative law, this book represents an innovative toolkit for analysing legal diversity. It further illustrates the significance of comparative analysis through references to several topical issues, ranging from corporate governance to human rights. Comparative law emerges as an open discipline, fundamental to understanding contemporary law in a global perspective.' Guido Comparato, Birkbeck, University of London
Praise for the first edition: 'Comparative law has transformed into a challenging and interdisciplinary field with a long intellectual history. Mathias Siems' welcomed addition to the field offers a stimulating and thoughtful introduction to a new kind of comparative law which is contextualised and cosmopolitan in its nature. The book offers an insightful overview of key issues arising in the comparative study of law today. Siems skilfully deals with established approaches, but also provides cutting-edge views on socio-legal and statistical approaches, as well as providing examples from politics, economics and development studies. The work by Siems is a concise synthesis and it is bound to enlighten and provoke its readers. This well-composed book makes wonderful reading for both students and scholars.' Jaakko Husa, University of Lapland
'A thoroughly researched and clearly written book, which sums up the many developments comparative law has undergone since 1971 when Zweigert and Kötz became the authoritative textbook. Siems explains how a cultural turn, discourse analysis, socio-legal studies, economic or numerical analysis of the law, and the dynamics of regionalisation and globalisation are shaping comparative law today, and predicts that “implicit comparative law” will increasingly be affected by comparisons in other social sciences with an interest in law. With many illustrations, diagrams and examples, Siems presents a reader-friendly account of the past and present, and a vision of the future, of comparative law.' Gerhard Dannemann, Humboldt University of Berlin
'Siems provides a modern, interdisciplinary approach to comparative law. For him, comparative law involves more than examining similarities and differences in legal rules and outcomes. Examining comparative research over the last forty years, he gives a critical analysis of what comparative study can achieve and suggests a sophisticated range of methods with which it can be undertaken. Refreshingly clear in its style, this book challenges comparative lawyers to play a central part in understanding the place of law in contemporary, complex and interconnected societies. It is an ideal starting point for anyone considering research in comparative law.' John Bell, University of Cambridge
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- Edition: 3rd Edition
- Date Published: June 2022
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781108744058
- length: 530 pages
- dimensions: 243 x 169 x 30 mm
- weight: 0.99kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
List of figures
List of tables
Preface
List of abbreviations
1. Introduction
Part I. Traditional Comparative Law
2. The comparative legal method
3. Common law and Civil law
4. Mapping the world's legal systems
5. The diffusion of legal traditions
Part II. Extending the Methods of Comparative Law
6. Postmodern comparative law
7. Socio-legal comparative law
8. Numerical comparative law
9. Empirical comparative law
Part III. Global Comparative Law
10. Legal transplants and convergence
11. Comparative regional and international law
12. From transnational law to global law
13. Comparative law and development
Part IV. Comparative Law as an Open Subject
14. Implicit comparative law
15. Reflections and outlook
References
Index.
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