Comparative Law is experiencing something of a renaissance, as legal scholars and
practitioners traditionally outside the discipline find it newly relevant in projects such as …

World cooperation has generated a variety of supranational organizations, with
responsibilities ranging from trade to crimes against humanity.'These organizations often …

This fully revised and updated second edition of The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Law
provides a wide-ranging and diverse critical survey of comparative law at the beginning of …

This innovative, refreshing, and reader-friendly book is aimed at enabling students to
familiarise themselves with the challenges and controversies found in comparative law. At …

Over the past decade especially, many writers have emphasised the need for a broad
approach to the subject of comparative law, thereby moving it beyond the “law as rules” …

How should one think about the laws of the world? The simplest response would be to think
about them as the laws of the world, with no further qualifications or categorizations. This …

This book is an advanced introduction to comparative law as a discipline and as a form of
legal research. However, the reader should bear in mind that there are no generally …

The intellectual odyssey of the concept of legal pluralism moves from the discovery of
indigenous forms of law among remote African villagers and New Guinea tribesmen to …

The idea of legal culture has had an important place in major recent debates about the
nature and aims of comparative law. The idea of legal culture entails that law should be …

Presenting a critique of conventional methods in comparative law, this book argues that, for
comparative law to qualify as a discipline, comparatists must reflect on how and why they …