ISBN | 9781107416888 |
Call Number | K559 .P72 2014 |
Title | Practice and theory in comparative law / edited by Maurice Adams and Jacco Bomhoff. |
Edition | 1st ed. |
Imprint | Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2014. |
Physical | ix, 342 p. : ill. ; |c 23 cm. |
Bibliography | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Content | 1. Comparing law : practice and theory -- 2. Reflections on comparative law methodology - getting inside contract law -- 3. Reasoning with previous decisions -- 4. Comparing legal argument -- 5. In search of system neutrality : mehodological issues in the drafting of European contract law rules -- 6. Comparative law and global regulatory convergence ; the example of competition law -- 7. Reflections on comparative method in Ruropean contitutional law -- 8. Rethinking methods in European private law -- 9. Transnational comparisons : theory and practice of comparative law as a critique of global governance -- 10. Comparative constitutional compliance : notes towards a research agenda -- 11. Quantitative methods for comparative constutitional law -- 12. Comparisons in private patrimonial law : towards a bottom-up approach using (cross-cultural) behavioural economics -- 13. Against'comparaive method' : explaining similarities and differences -- 14. Comparative law as an act of modesty : a pragmatic and realistic approach to comparative legal scholarship. |
Subject | Comparative law. (10) |
Added Entry | Adams, Maurice, 1964- |
| Bomhoff, J. (Jacco). (3) |
Holding | LIC |
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