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 …

The comparative study of law and the institutions of law have enriched our understanding of
the role law plays in our society by comparing law and legal institutions in different countries …

Democracy, Agency, and the State aims to contribute to a comparatively informed theory of
democracy. Professor O'Donnell begins by arguing that conceptions of'the …

8. Karst and Rosenn (1975), 42. 9. Because these two institutions dealt specifically with the
Indies and trade, few cases touching these important topics found their way to what was …

Una advertencia importante: en sus estudios de la democracia, la mayor parte de la ciencia
política contemporánea se limita analizar el régimen y sus instituciones (parlamentos …

In the second half of the nineteenth century, the majority of US states adopted a novel code
of legal practice for their civil courts. Legal scholars have long recognized the influence of …

" Legal History presents a broad panorama of historical processes that trigger theoretical
reflections on legal transfers and legal transplants and on the problem of the reception and …

Everyone is talking about the challenges that Europeanization and globali zation pose for
the law, including private law. Yet there is remarkably little conceptual clarity about exactly …

Codification was a founding feature of Ottoman legal reform from the 1840s until the demise
of the empire. This article seeks to situate the Ottoman project of codification in the context of …

Mouradgea d'Ohsson's Tableau général de l'Empire othoman offered the Enlightenment
Republic of Letters its most authoritative work on Islam and the Ottomans, also a practical …