A new introduction to comparative law

목차 (Table of Contents)

• CONTENTS
• Acknowledgements = vii
• 1. Introduction = 1
• ��. About this Book = 2
• ��. Legal Culture in Focus = 3
• ��. Structure of the Book = 5
• 2. Comparative Law as a Discipline - A Short History = 6
• ��. History of Comparative Law in a Nutshell = 6
• A. Birth of Modern Comparative Law = 8
• ��. 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
• ��. Challenge of Further Definition = 17
• A. Crossing the Borders = 17
• ��. Comparative Study of Law = 19
• A. Universalism? = 20
• B. Research Results and their Use = 22
• C. Restrictions on Use = 23
• ��. The 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
• ��. Part of a Larger Field of Knowledge = 29
• ��. A 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
• ��. Comparison and Fields of Law = 48
• A. Private International Law = 49
• B. Public International Law = 52
• ��. Difficulty of Demarcation = 55
• 5. Why Compare? = 58
• ��. Starting Points - Creating Added Value = 59
• ��. Comparison as a Cross-border Form of Knowledge Acquisition = 60
• A. About Proportions = 62
• B. Different Needs = 65
• ��. Comparison as Thinking Outside the Box = 66
• A. Away from Ethnocentrism = 68
• ��. Basic Knowledge-interests = 70
• ��. Integrativity and Contradictivity = 71
• A. The Historical Dimension = 72
• B. Recent Integration in Europe = 75
• C. New or Old Ius Commune? = 76
• D. The International Dimension and Knowledge-interest of Comparison = 81
• E. Other Dimensions = 85
• ��. Practical v Theoretical Approach = 86
• A. Practicality = 86
• B. Theoreticalness = 90
• ��. Pedagogical - Comparison in Teaching and Learning Law = 91
• 6. Basic Strategies in Comparison = 96
• ��. Introduction = 96
• A. Method - Methodology = 97
• B. Methodological Choices of a Technical Nature = 100
• ��. Scope - From Macro to Micro = 100
• A. Comparison - Macro and Micro = 100
• B. New or Old - Micro or Macro = 102
• ��. In Time and Space - The Time Dimension = 104
• A. Transplants and Loans = 105
• ��. Quantity = 108
• ��. The Diversity of Legal Systems - Transnationality = 110
• A. Transnational Law = 111
• ��. Cultural Dimensions and their Overlapping = 114
• A. Too Many Sources? = 115
• ��. Methodological Choices of Theoretical Nature = 117
• ��. Functionality - Functional Comparative Law = 118
• A. The 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
• ��. Structural Dimension = 127
• A. Structural Elements = 127
• B. Structural Comparability = 129
• C. Dynamic Approach = 132
• ��. Systematic Approach = 133
• ?. Critical Study Approaches - Two Examples = 135
• A. Deep Level Comparison and Mentality = 135
• B. Postcolonial Methodology - Orientalism = 138
• ?. 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
• ��. Need for a Yardstick for Comparison - Tertium Comparationis = 148
• A. Tertium and the Preference for Functional Comparison? = 151
• ��. Differences and Similarities = 154
• ��. Culture and Explanation = 157
• A. Mentality = 160
• ��. Economic Factors = 163
• ��. Historical Factors = 165
• A. Colonialism = 166
• B. Understanding Institutions and their Adoption = 168
• C. The Presence of the Past = 172
• ��. Geography and Climate = 174
• A. Neighbourhood = 175
• ��. Other Factors = 177
• ��. Differences between Explanatory Factors = 179
• ��. The Presumption of Similarity? = 181
• A. Diffusion and Similarity = 184
• 8. Comparison - Obstacles and Difficulties = 187
• ��. Comparative Research - Between the Familiar and the Foreign = 187
• ��. Research Data Related Problems = 189
• ��. Pitfalls in Research-material Processing and Analysis = 193
• A. The Problem of Legal Language = 193
• B. Multilingualism = 196
• C. The Significance of Context = 198
• ��. Side-step to Theory : Comparing Laws, but what Laws? = 200
• A. Validity of Law = 201
• B. Pluralism and Law = 204
• ��. Legal Comparison - A Particularly Risky Business? = 205
• ��. Comparison as a Learning Process = 207
• 9. Macro-comparison = 210
• ��. 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
• ��. Constructing Macro-constructs = 220
• A. Mastering Complexity by Means of Generalisations = 222
• ��. Grouping Legal Systems = 224
• A. Legal Family = 225
• B. Nordic Legal Family? = 228
• C. Legal Culture = 229
• D. Legal Tradition = 233
• ��. Macro-constructs and Methodology = 237
• A. Change in the Knowledge Environment = 237
• B. Concentration on Basic Matters = 239
• ��. Finally = 241
• 10. Legal Evolution? = 242
• ��. Is there Evolution in Law? = 243
• ��. Problems in Macro-comparison = 247
• A. Changing of Law = 249
• ��. Limits of Legal Evolution? = 250
• 11. Groupings, Classifications, Categories = 253
• ��. Technical Criteria = 255
• ��. General Requirements = 257
• ��. History-related Factors = 259
• ��. Nature of Legal Thinking(Legal Mentality) = 260
• A. Differences Between the Basic Codifications of Continental Civil Law = 262
• ��. Factors Related to Societal Ideology = 265
• A. Law and Development = 266
• ��. Cultural Factors = 268
• ��. Finally = 271
• Index = 273