While the role of comparative law in the courts was previously only an exception, foreign
sources are now increasingly becoming a source of law in regular use in supreme and …

Over the last century many books on" Comparative Law" have been published which were
more in the nature of overviews of (Western) legal systems and their influence worldwide …

THE years since the end of the Second World War have witnessed a dramatic resurgence of
interest and activity in comparative law. A cursory reading of the calendars and …

Comparative law as a discipline in the United States, while enjoying substantial success at
the present time in achieving certain of its fundamental objectives, is in other respects facing …

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 …

What does doing comparative law involve? Too often, explicit methodological discussions in
comparative law remain limited to the level of pure theory, neglecting to test out critiques and …

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 …

Twenty-five years have elapsed since the late Sir Otto Kahn-Freund delivered his inaugural
lecture in the University of Oxford on'Comparative Law as an Academic Subject'.'In 1973 he …

The idea that comparative law must have a specific aim or aims became widespread
through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, as comparative law itself came to be …

Viewing the contested theme Comparative Law as an'Enigma', this book explores its
fundamental issues as sub-themes, each covered in two variations. After the Overture, the …