A new introduction to comparative law / Jaakko Husa.
2015
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Author
Title
A new introduction to comparative law / Jaakko Husa.
Published
Oxford ; Portland, Oregon : Hart Publishing, 2015.
Copyright
©2015
Call Number
K559 .H87 2015
ISBN
9781849467964
184946796X
184946796X
Description
xii, 284 pages ; 24 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)902659697
Summary
This thought provoking introduction to the study of comparative law provides an in-depth analysis of all major comparative methodologies and theories and serving as a common sense guide to the study of foreign legal systems. It is written in a lively and accessible style and will prove to be indispensable reading to students of the subject. It also contains much that will be of interest to comparative law scholars, offering novel insights into commonplace methodological and theoretical questions and making a significant contribution to the field. -- Back cover.
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"Bloomsbury"--Front cover.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Purchased from the income of the Szladits Fund
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The Arthur W. Diamond Law Library
Purchased from the income of the Szladits Fund
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
vii
1.
Introduction
1
I.
About this Book
2
II.
Legal Culture in Focus
3
III.
Structure of the Book
5
2.
Comparative Law as a Discipline---A Short History
6
I.
History of Comparative Law in a Nutshell
6
A.
Birth of Modern Comparative Law
8
II.
Comparative Law in the Twenty-first Century
9
A.
Legal Systematics and Comparison: Private Law v Public Law
12
3.
Comparative Law---Definitions and Distinctions
16
I.
Challenge of Further Definition
17
A.
Crossing the Borders
17
II.
Comparative Study of Law
19
A.
Universalism?
20
B.
Research Results and their Use
22
C.
Restrictions on Use
23
III.
Theory of Comparative Law
24
A.
Macro-comparison
25
B.
Theory and Methodology
26
C.
Special Features
27
4.
Comparative Law---One of the Legal Disciplines
29
I.
Part of a Larger Field of Knowledge
29
II.
Member of the Family of Legal Studies
30
A.
Comparative Law and the Normative Approach
30
B.
Comparative Law and the Roots of Law
34
C.
Comparative Law and Sociological Dimensions of Law
37
D.
Theoretical and Philosophical Dimensions of Comparative Law
42
E.
Linguistic and Economic Dimensions---Comparative Law Reloaded
46
III.
Comparison and Fields of Law
48
A.
Private International Law
49
B.
Public International Law
52
IV.
Difficulty of Demarcation
55
5.
Why Compare?
58
I.
Starting Points---Creating Added Value
59
II.
Comparison as a Cross-border Form of Knowledge Acquisition
60
A.
About Proportions
62
B.
Different Needs
65
III.
Comparison as Thinking Outside the Box
66
A.
Away from Ethnocentrism
68
IV.
Basic Knowledge-interests
70
V.
Integrativity and Contradictivity
71
A.
Historical Dimension
72
B.
Recent Integration in Europe
75
C.
New or Old Ius Commune?
76
D.
International Dimension and Knowledge-interest of Comparison
81
E.
Other Dimensions
85
VI.
Practical v Theoretical Approach
86
A.
Practicality
86
B.
Theoreticalness
90
VII.
Pedagogical---Comparison in Teaching and Learning Law
91
6.
Basic Strategies in Comparison
96
I.
Introduction
96
A.
Method---Methodology
97
B.
Methodological Choices of a Technical Nature
100
II.
Scope---From Macro to Micro
100
A.
Comparison---Macro and Micro
100
B.
New or Old---Micro or Macro
102
III.
In Time and Space---The Time Dimension
104
A.
Transplants and Loans
105
IV.
Quantity
108
V.
Diversity of Legal Systems---Transnationality
110
A.
Transnational Law
111
VI.
Cultural Dimensions and their Overlapping
114
A.
Too Many Sources?
115
VII.
Methodological Choices of Theoretical Nature
117
VIII.
Functionality---Functional Comparative Law
118
A.
Same Idea as a Starting Point
119
B.
Getting Rid of System-specific Labels
122
C.
Problems and Transformation of the Functional Approach
123
D.
Translating Legal Language and Functional Comparison
125
IX.
Structural Dimension
127
A.
Structural Elements
127
B.
Structural Comparability
129
C.
Dynamic Approach
132
X.
Systematic Approach
133
XI.
Critical Study Approaches---Two Examples
135
A.
Deep Level Comparison and Mentality
135
B.
Postcolonial Methodology---Orientalism
138
XII.
Depth of the Study---Decisiveness of the Knowledge-interest
140
XIII.
Research Ethics
143
A.
Honesty in Research
144
XIV.
Comparative Methodology---Heuristics?
145
7.
Comparing---Differences and Similarities
147
I.
Need for a Yardstick for Comparison---Tertium Comparationis
148
A.
Tertium and the Preference for Functional Comparison?
151
II.
Differences and Similarities
154
III.
Culture and Explanation
157
A.
Mentality
160
IV.
Economic Factors
163
V.
Historical Factors
165
A.
Colonialism
166
B.
Understanding Institutions and their Adoption
168
C.
Presence of the Past
172
VI.
Geography and Climate
174
A.
Neighbourhood
175
VII.
Other Factors
177
VIII.
Differences between Explanatory Factors
179
IX.
Presumption of Similarity?
181
A.
Diffusion and Similarity
184
8.
Comparison---Obstacles and Difficulties
187
I.
Comparative Research---Between the Familiar and the Foreign
187
II.
Research Data Related Problems
189
III.
Pitfalls in Research-material Processing and Analysis
193
A.
Problem of Legal Language
193
B.
Multilingualism
196
C.
Significance of Context
198
IV.
Side-step to Theory: Comparing Laws, but what Laws?
200
A.
Validity of Law
201
B.
Pluralism and Law
204
V.
Legal Comparison---A Particularly Risky Business?
205
VI.
Comparison as a Learning Process
207
9.
Macro-comparison
210
I.
Basic Blocks of Macro-comparison
211
A.
Common Law
211
B.
Continental Law aka Civil Law
213
C.
Mixed Legal Systems
215
D.
Religious-traditional Law
217
E.
What about the Socialist Legal Family?
219
II.
Constructing Macro-constructs
220
A.
Mastering Complexity by Means of Generalisations
222
III.
Grouping Legal Systems
224
A.
Legal Family
225
B.
Nordic Legal Family?
228
C.
Legal Culture
229
i.
Professional Law
231
ii.
Political Law
232
iii.
Traditional Law
232
D.
Legal Tradition
233
IV.
Macro-constructs and Methodology
237
A.
Change in the Knowledge Environment
237
B.
Concentration on Basic Matters
239
V.
Finally
241
10.
Legal Evolution?
242
I.
Is there Evolution in Law?
243
II.
Problems in Macro-comparison
247
A.
Changing of Law
249
III.
Limits of Legal Evolution?
250
11.
Groupings, Classifications, Categories
253
I.
Technical Criteria
255
II.
General Requirements
257
III.
History-related Factors
259
IV.
Nature of Legal Thinking (Legal Mentality)
260
A.
Differences Between the Basic Codifications of Continental Civil Law
262
V.
Factors Related to Societal Ideology
265
A.
Law and Development
266
VI.
Cultural Factors
268
VII.
Finally
271
Index
273