The Cambridge companion to comparative law [electronic resource] / edited by Mauro Bussani and Ugo Mattei.

Contributor Bussani, Mauro, editor.

ImprintCambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012.

Description1 online resource (xii, 410 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

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Note:Diapositives versus movies : the inner dynamics of the law and its comparative account / Mauro Bussani and Ugo Mattei -- Part I. Knowing comparative law -- Comparative law and neighbouring disciplines / Mathias Reimann -- Political ideology and comparative law / Duncan Kennedy -- Economic analysis and comparative law / Nuno Garoupa and Tom Ginsburg -- Comparative law and anthropology / Lawrence Rosen -- Comparative law and language / Barbara Pozzo -- Part II. Comparative law fields -- Comparative studies in private law / Franz Werro -- Comparative administrative law / Francesca Bignami -- Comparative constitutional law / Gunter Frankenberg -- Comparative criminal justice / Elisabetta Grande -- Comparative civil justice / Oscar G. Chase and Vincenzo Varano -- Comparative law and international organizations / George A. Bermann -- Part III. Comparative law in the flux of civilizations -- The East Asian legal tradition / Teemu Ruskola -- The Jewish legal tradition / J. David Bleich and Arthur J. Jacobson -- The Islamic legal tradition / Khaled Abou El Fadl -- The sub-Saharan legal tradition / Rodolfo Sacco -- The Latin American and Caribbean legal traditions / Diego Lopez-Medina -- Mixed legal systems / Vernon Valentine Palmer -- Democracy and the Western legal tradition / Mauro Bussani.

Note: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.

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