Presents a fresh, contextualised and sophisticated perspective on comparative law for both students and scholars.
This co-authored book rethinks comparative law's mainstream model by providing both students and lawyers with the intellectual equipment allowing them to approach any foreign law in a more meaningful way"--Provided by publisher
Reconstructs existing comparative law scholarship into a coherent analytic framework so as to both fend off current charges of theoretical arbitrariness and guide future work.
This innovative handbook offers both a history of the field of comparative law and society and a thorough exploration of its methods, disciplines, and major issues, presenting the most comprehensive look into this contemporary field to date ...
Menski argues for combining modern natural law theories with positivist and socio-legal traditions, building an interactive, triangular concept of legal pluralism.
The most up-to-date and contextualised offering for comparative law students and scholars, referencing the newest research in the field.
Scholars in different academic fields follow different modes of writing across disciplines and fields of study. ... Accordingly, in law as an academic discipline, there are different styles of writing depending on the subfield and ...
The book opens by focusing on European-based civil law, represented by German law, before moving on to the common law legal tradition seen in English law.
The topical chapters in this cutting-edge collection at the intersection of comparative law and anthropology explore the mutually enriching insights and outlooks of the two fields.
Comparative Law: An Introduction explores the position and nature of comparative law in a world in which contacts among different countries and cultures are increasing at an ever more rapid...
F. H. Lawson gives a twofold explanation of the omission: only a few of the main Scottish judges sat in the criminal court, and Stair was not one of them and had an aversion to being concerned in criminal matters.19 Lawson's view shows ...