Comparative Law

Mathias Siems (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

438 Seiten

2014
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-107-00375-0 (ISBN)

Infos

This book presents a fresh contextualised and cosmopolitan perspective on comparative law for both students and scholars. It critically discusses established approaches to comparative law, but also presents more modern ones, such as socio-legal and numerical comparative law. Special emphasis is given to the impact of globalisation on legal systems.

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This book presents a fresh contextualised and cosmopolitan perspective on comparative law for both students and scholars. It critically discusses established approaches to comparative law, but also presents more modern ones, such as socio-legal and numerical comparative law. Its contextualised approach draws on examples from politics, economics and development studies to provide an original contribution to topics of comparative law.

Autor

Mathias Siems is Professor of Commercial Law at Durham University.

Inhalt

1. Introduction; Part I. Traditional Comparative Law: 2. The comparative legal method; 3. Common law and civil law; 4. Mapping the world's legal systems; Part II. Extending the Methods of Comparative Law: 5. Postmodern comparative law; 6. Socio-legal comparative law; 7. Numerical comparative law; Part III. Global Comparative Law: 8. Legal transplants; 9. Fading state borders; 10. Comparative law and development; Part IV. Comparative Law as an Open Subject: 11. Implicit comparative law; 12. Outlook.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 5.6.2014
• Reihe/Serie: Law in Context
• Zusatzinfo: 5 Halftones, unspecified; 5 Line drawings, unspecified
• Verlagsort: Cambridge
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 177 x 253 mm
• Gewicht: 1040 g
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
• ISBN-10: 1-107-00375-X / 110700375X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-107-00375-0 / 9781107003750
• Zustand: Neuware