The Method and Culture of Comparative Law

Essays in Honour of Mark Van Hoecke
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ISBN: 978-1-5099-0500-3
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Buch, Englisch, 352 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 154 mm x 232 mm, Gewicht: 540 g

Awareness of the need to deepen the method and methodology of legal research is only recent. The same is true for comparative law, by nature a more adventurous branch of legal research, which is often something researchers simply do, whenever they look at foreign legal systems to answer one or more of a range of questions about law, whether these questions are doctrinal, economic, sociological, etc. Given the diversity of comparative research projects, the precise contours of the methods employed, or the epistemological issues raised by them, are to a great extent a function of the nature of the research questions asked. As a result, the search for a unique, one-size-fits-all comparative law methodology is unlikely to be fruitful. That, however, does not make reflection on the method and culture of comparative law meaningless. Mark Van Hoecke has been interested in many topics throughout his career, but legal theory, comparative law and methodology of law stand out. Building upon his work, this book brings together a group of leading authors working at the crossroads of these themes: the method and culture of comparative law.

With contributions by: Maurice Adams, John Bell, Joxerramon Bengoetxea, Roger Brownsword, Seán Patrick Donlan, Rob van Gestel and Hans Micklitz, Patrick Glenn, Jaap Hage, Dirk Heirbaut, Jaakko Husa, Souichirou Kozuka and Luke Nottage, Martin Löhnig, Susan Millns, Toon Moonen, Francois Ost, Heikki Pihlajamäki, Geoffrey Samuel, Mathias Siems, Jørn Øyrehagen Sunde, Catherine Valcke, Matthew Grellette and Alain Wijffels.

Review
'In this beautifully produced volume, leading theorists and researchers look at significant aspects of their fields.As a whole, the most important contribution of this volume, however, is having collected essays which all indicate, in various ways, the role of comparative law in enhancing knowledge not only of law but also society, of context and interdisciplinary approaches, and of the significant place of imaginative interpretation for our understanding of law and society'.
Esin Örücü, The Edinburgh Law Review

Autoren/Hrsg.

Adams, Maurice

Heirbaut, Dirk

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsvergleichung
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtstheorie, Rechtsmethodik, Rechtsdogmatik, Rechtsprechungslehre

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Prolegomena to the Method and Culture of Comparative Law

Maurice Adams and Dirk Heirbaut
2. What is Legal Epistemology?

Geoffrey Samuel
3. Comparative Law as Method and the Method of Comparative
Law

Jaap Hage
4. Research Designs of Comparative Law-Methodology or
Heuristics?

Jaakko Husa
5. Law as Translation

François Ost
6. Controlled Comparison and Language of Description

Maurice Adams
7. Three Functions of Function in Comparative Legal Studies

Catherine Valcke and Mathew Grellette
8. Comparative Law and Legal History: A Few Words about
Comparative Legal History

Martin Löhnig
9. Comparative Contexts in Legal History: Are We All
Comparatists Now?

Heikki Pihlajamäki
10. The Curious Case of Overfi tting Legal Transplants

Mathias M Siems
11. 'Ius commune', Comparative Law and Public Governance

Alain Wijffels
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12. Things Being Various: Normativity, Legality, State Legality

Seán Patrick Donlan
13. Against Method?

H Patrick Glenn
14. Comparatively Speaking: 'Law in its Regulatory Environment'

Roger Brownsword
15. The Importance of Institutions

John Bell
16. Live and Let Die: An Essay Concerning Legal-Cultural
Understanding

Jørn Øyrehagen Sunde
17. Policy and Politics in Contract Law Reform in Japan

Souichirou Kozuka and Luke Nottage
18. The Eurocrises and What Socio-legal Studies Could Do about
Them, or: Comparing European Pluralisms from Legal
Cultural Approaches

Joxerramon Bengoetxea
19. Comparing the Legitimacy of Constitutional Court Decision-
Making: Deliberation as Method

Toon Moonen
20. Making the Case for European Comparative Legal Studies in
Public Law

Susan Millns
21. Comparative Law and EU Legislation: Inspiration, Evaluation
or Justifi cation?

Rob van Gestel and Hans-W Micklitz

Über Autor(innen)

Adams, Maurice
Maurice Adams is Professor of Democratic Governance and Rule of Law (vfund chair) and Professor of General Jurisprudence at Tilburg Law School.

Heirbaut, Dirk
Dirk Heirbaut is Professor of Legal History and Roman Law at Ghent University.

Maurice Adams is Professor of General Jurisprudence at Tilburg University.

Dirk Heirbaut is Professor of Legal History and Roman Law at Ghent University.