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Comparative law : a handbook / edited by Esin Örücü and David Nelken.

Title
Comparative law : a handbook / edited by Esin Örücü and David Nelken.
Publication
Oxford ; Portland, Or. : Hart Pub., 2007.

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Additional Authors
  • Örücü, E.
  • Nelken, David
Description
x, 469 p.; 24 cm.
Summary
This innovative, refreshing, and reader-friendly book is aimed at enabling students to familiarise themselves with the challenges and controversies found in comparative law. This book fills that gap in teaching at undergraduate level, and for postgraduates will be a starting point for further reading and discussion.
Subject
Comparative law
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Comparative law and comparative legal studies / David Nelken -- Developing comparative law / Esin Örücü -- Globalisation and comparative law / William Twining -- Com-paring / H. Patrick Glenn -- Defining and using the concept of legal culture / David Nelken -- Is it so bad to be different? Comparative law and the appreciation of diversity / Roger Cotterrell -- The economic approach: competition between legal systems / Anthony Ogus -- A general view of 'legal families' and of 'mixing systems' / Esin Örücü -- Beyond Europe / Werner Menski -- Convergence of private law in Europe: towards a new ius commune? / Jan M. Smits -- Comparative family law: moving with the times? / Masha Antokolskaia -- Comparative commercial law: rules or context? / Nicholas H.D. Foster -- Administrative law in a comparative perspective / John Bell -- Comparative law in constitutional contexts / Andrew Harding and Peter Leyland -- Comparative law for international criminal justice / Paul Roberts -- Judicial comparativism and human rights / Christopher McCrudden -- Comparative private law in practice: the process of law reform / Sjef van Erp -- Comparative law in practice: the courts and the legislator / Esin Örücü -- A project: comparative law in action / Esin Örücü.
ISBN
  • 9781841135960 (pbk.)
  • 1841135968 (pbk.)
OCLC
  • 123114457
  • SCSB-10035113
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library