Comparative law

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.

• 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.