Catherine Valcke

Comparing Law

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Reconstructs existing comparative law scholarship into a coherent analytic framework so as to both fend off current charges of theoretical arbitrariness and guide future work.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 246
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. März 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 362g
• ISBN-13: 9781108455176
• ISBN-10: 1108455174
• Artikelnr.: 52419201

Autorenporträt

Catherine Valcke is Full Professor, Faculty of Law at the University of Toronto. She has taught, lectured and published on comparative law, comparative law theory and legal theory worldwide, including in such journals as Nomos, The American Journal of Comparative Law, Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, Yale Journal of International Law, European Review of Private Law, and Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence. Her work on English and French contract law, in particular, was recently cited as 'illuminating' by the English House of Lords. An elected member of the International Academy of Comparative Law, she has acted as National Reporter for Canada to the Congress of the Academy.

Inhaltsangabe

Prologue: the 'malaise' of comparative law
1. Law
2. Legal systems
3. Engaging with legal systems - epistemology
4. Delineating legal systems - geography
5. Comparing legal systems - methodology
Epilogue: the 'academic discipline' of comparative law.