The Oxford handbook of comparative law / edited by Mathias Reimann and Reinhard Zimmermann.

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2006.

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Comparative law.

Introduction. Comparative law before the Code Napoleon / Charles Donahue

Part I. The development of comparative law in the world --1. Development of comparative law in France / Bénédicte 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 W. Cairns

5. Development of comparative law in the United States / David S. Clark

6. Development of comparative law in Central and Eastern Europe / Zdeněk Kühn

7. Development of comparative law in East Asia / Zentaro Kitagawa

8. Development of comparative law in Latin America / Jan Kleinheisterkamp

Part II. Approaches to comparative law

9. Comparative law and comparative knowledge / 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 adn comparative legal traditions / H. Patrick Glenn

13. Comparative law as the study of transplants and receptions / Michele 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 M. Smits

16. Comparative law and the Europeanization of private law / Reinhard Zimmermann

17. Globalization and comparative law / Horatia Muir Watt

18. Comparative law and the Islamic (Middle Eastern) legal culture / Chibli Mallat

19. Comparative law and African customary law / T. W. Bennett

20. Comparative law and language / Vivian Grosswald 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

Part III. Subject areas

27. Sources of law and legal method in comparative law / Stefan Vogenauer

28. Comparative contract law / E. Allan 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 J. de Waal

34. Comparative family law / Harry D. Krause

35. Comparative labour law / Matthew W. Finkin

36. Comparative company law / Klaus J. Hopt

37. Comparative antitrust law / David J. Gerber

38. Comparative constitutional law / Mark Tushnet

39. Comparative administrative law / John S. Bell

40. Comparative criminal law / Markus Dirk 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. In the current era of globalization, this discipline is more relevant than ever, both on the academic and on the practical level.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

9780199296064

xxi, 1,430 p.