Subjects:

Comparative Law

Contents:

Introduction: Comparative Law Before the Code Napoleon , Charles Donahue

I The Development of Comparative Law in the World
1. Development of Comparative Law in France , Bené

dicte Fauvarque-Cosson

2. Development of Comparative Law in Germany, Switzerland, and Austria , Ingeborg Schwenzer

3. Development of Comparative Law in Italy , Elisabetta Grande

4. Development of Comparative Law in Great Britain , John Cairns

5. Development of Comparative Law in the United States , David Clarke

6. Development of Comparative Law in Eastern Europe , Zdenke Kuhn

7. Development of Comparative Law in East Asia , Zentaro Kitagawa

8. Development of Comparative Law in Latin America , Jan Kleinheisterkamp

II Approaches to Comparative Law

9. Comparative Law Within the Field of Comparative Disciplines , Nils Jansen

10. The Functional Method of Comparative Law , Ralf Michaels

11. Comparative Law: Study of Similarities or Differences? , Gerhard Dannemann

12. Comparative Legal Families and Comparative Legal Traditions , Patrick Glenn

13. Comparative Law as the Study of Transplants and Receptions , Michaele Graziadei

14. Comparative Law and the Study of Mixed Legal Systems , Jacques du Plessis

15. Comparative Law and its Influence on National Legal Systems , Jan Smits

16. Comparative Law and the Europeanization of Private Law , Reinhard Zimmermann

17. Comparative Law and the Process of Globalization , Horatia Muir Watt

18. Comparative Law and the Islamic Legal Culture , Chibli Mallat

19. Comparative Law and African Customary Law , Tom Bennett

20. Comparative Law and Language , Vivian G. Curran

21. Comparative Law and Legal Culture , Roger Cotterrell

22. Comparative Law and Religion , Harold J. Berman

23. Comparative Law and Legal History , James Gordley

24. Comparative Law and Socio-Legal Studies , Annelise Riles

25. Comparative Law and Critical Legal Studies , Ugo Mattei

26. Comparative Law and Economic Analysis of Law , Florian Faust

III Subject Areas

27. Sources of Law and Legal Method in Comparative Law , Stefan Vogenauer

28. Comparative Contract Law , Alan Farnsworth

29. Comparative Sales Law , Peter Huber

30. Unjustified Enrichment in Comparative Perspective , Daniel Visser

31. Comparative Tort Law , Gerhard Wagner

32. Comparative Property Law , Sjef van Erp

33. Comparative Succession Law , Marius de Waal

34. Comparative Family Law , Harry Krause

35. Comparative Labour Law , Matthew Finkin

36. Comparative Company Law , Klaus J. Hopt

37. Comparative Antitrust Law , David Gerber

38. Comparative Constitutional Law , Mark Tushnet

39. Comparative Administrative Law , John Bell

40. Comparative Criminal Law , Markus Dubber

41. Comparative Civil Procedure , Joachim Zekoll

42. Comparative Law and Private International Law , Mathias Reimann

The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Law provides a wide-ranging and highly diverse survey as well as a critical assessment of comparative law at the beginning of the twenty-first century. It summarizes and evaluates a discipline that is time-honoured but not easily understood in all its dimensions. In the current era of globalization, this discipline is more relevant than ever, both on the academic and on the practical level.

The Handbook is divided into three main sections.:-

• Section I surveys how comparative law has developed and where it stands today in various parts of the world. This includes not only traditional model jurisdictions, such as France, Germany, and the United States, but also other regions like Eastern Europe, East Asia, and Latin America.
• Section II then discusses the major approaches to comparative law - its methods, goals, and its relationship with other fields, such as legal history, economics, and linguistics.
• Section III deals with the status of comparative studies in over a dozen subject matter areas, including the major categories of private, economic, public, and criminal law.

The Handbook contains forty eight chapters which are written by experts from around the world. The aim of each chapter is to provide an accessible, original, and critical account of the current state of comparative law in its respective area which will help to shape the agenda in the years to come. Each chapter also includes a short bibliography referencing the definitive works in the field.