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Comparative law / Mathias Siems.

By: Siems, Mathias M, 1974- [author.]Series: Law in contextPublication details: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press ; 2014. Description: xx, 416 pages : illustrations ; 26 cmISBN: 9781107003750 (hardback); 110700375X (hardback); 9780521177177 (paperback); 0521177170 (paperback)Subject(s): Comparative law | LAW / ComparativeLOC classification: K583. | S587 2014Other classification: LAW016000 Online resources: Cover image
Incomplete contents:
Introduction -- Part I. Traditional Comparative Law -- The comparative legal method -- Common law and civil law -- Mapping the world's legal systems; Part II. Extending the Methods of Comparative Law -- Postmodern comparative law -- Socio-legal comparative law -- Numerical comparative law -- Part III: Global Comparative Law -- Legal transplants -- Fading state borders -- Comparative law and development -- Part IV. Comparative Law as an Open Subject -- Implicit comparative law -- Outlook.
Summary: "This book presents a fresh contextualised and cosmopolitan perspective on comparative law for both students and scholars. It critically discusses established approaches to comparative law, but also presents more modern ones, such as socio-legal and numerical comparative law. Its contextualised approach draws on examples from politics, economics and development studies to provide an original contribution to topics of comparative law"--Summary: "This book presents a fresh contextualised and cosmopolitan perspective on comparative law for both students and scholars. It critically discusses established approaches to comparative law, but also presents more modern ones, such as socio-legal and numerical comparative law. Its con-textualised approach draws on examples from politics, eco-nomics and development studies to provide an original con-tribution to topics of comparative law"--
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 318-400) and index.

Introduction -- Part I. Traditional Comparative Law -- The comparative legal method -- Common law and civil law -- Mapping the world's legal systems; Part II. Extending the Methods of Comparative Law -- Postmodern comparative law -- Socio-legal comparative law -- Numerical comparative law -- Part III: Global Comparative Law -- Legal transplants -- Fading state borders -- Comparative law and development -- Part IV. Comparative Law as an Open Subject -- Implicit comparative law -- Outlook.

"This book presents a fresh contextualised and cosmopolitan perspective on comparative law for both students and scholars. It critically discusses established approaches to comparative law, but also presents more modern ones, such as socio-legal and numerical comparative law. Its contextualised approach draws on examples from politics, economics and development studies to provide an original contribution to topics of comparative law"--

"This book presents a fresh contextualised and cosmopolitan perspective on comparative law for both students and scholars. It critically discusses established approaches to comparative law, but also presents more modern ones, such as socio-legal and numerical comparative law. Its con-textualised approach draws on examples from politics, eco-nomics and development studies to provide an original con-tribution to topics of comparative law"--