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Comparative Law

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ISBN-10: 0521895707

ISBN-13: 9780521895705

Edition: 2012

Authors: Mauro Bussani, Ugo Mattei

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We can only claim to understand another legal system when we know the context surrounding the positive law in which lawyers are trained. To avoid ethnocentricity and superficiality, we must go beyond judicial decisions, doctrinal writings and the black-letter law of codes and statutes and probe the 'deeper structures' where law meets cultural, political, socio-economic factors. It is only when we acquire such awareness and knowledge of the critical factors affecting both the backgrounds and implications of rules that it becomes possible to control the present and possibly future developments of the world's legal institutions. This collection of essays aims to provide the reader with a…    
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List price: $164.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 8/16/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 424
Size: 6.18" wide x 9.29" long x 0.91" tall
Weight: 1.760
Language: English

Ugo Mattei is Distinguished Professor of International and Comparative Law at University of California, Hastings and at the University of Turin, Italy. He is a widely published scholar in economic and political aspects of law and his work has been translated into many languages. His professional activities have included substantive periods of teaching and research in Europe, Africa, and Latin America.Laura Nader is Professor of Anthropology at University of California, Berkeley and is possibly the leading world authority in Anthropology of Law. She has conducted fieldwork in Lebanon, Mexico, and the US and her groundbreaking work on harmony ideology and access to law and her unmatchable…    

Editors' preface. Diapositives v. movies: the inner dynamics of the law and its comparative account: a companion
Knowing Comparative Law
Comparative law and neighbouring disciplines
Political ideology and comparative law
Economic analysis and comparative law
Comparative law and anthropology
Comparative law and language
Comparative Law Fields
Comparative studies in private law (insights from a European point of view)
Comparative administrative law
Comparative constitutional law
Comparative criminal justice
Comparative civil justice
Comparative law and the international organizations
Comparative Law in the Flux of Civilizations
The East-Asian legal tradition
The Jewish legal tradition
The Islamic legal tradition Khaled Abou
The Sub-Saharan legal tradition
The Latin American and Caribbean legal tradition (repositioning Latin America and the Caribbean in the contemporary maps of comparative law)
Mixed legal systems
Democracy and the Western legal tradition