TY  - BOOK
AU  - Siems,Mathias M.
TI  - Comparative law
T2  - Law in context
SN  - 9780521177177 (paperback)
U1  - 340.2 22
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Comparative law
KW  - BUEsh
KW  - LLAAWW
KW  - July2016
N1  - Index : p. [401]-416; Bibliography : p. 318-400; Introduction -- Part I. Traditional Comparative Law -- The comparative legal method --  Common law and civil law -- Mapping the world's legal systems; Part II. Extending the Methods of Comparative Law -- Postmodern comparative law -- Socio-legal comparative law -- Numerical comparative law -- Part III: Global Comparative Law -- Legal transplants -- Fading state borders -- Comparative law and development -- Part IV. Comparative Law as an Open Subject -- Implicit comparative law -- Outlook
N2  - "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"--; "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 con-textualised approach draws on examples from politics, eco-nomics and development studies to provide an original con-tribution to topics of comparative law"--
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