The Cambridge Companion to Comparative Law
Ugo Mattei editor Mauro Bussani editor
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Published:16th Aug '12
Should be back in stock very soon
This hardback is available in another edition too:
- Paperback£30.99(9780521720052)
The book delves into the 'deeper structures' of the world's legal systems, where law meets culture, politics and socio-economic factors.
To understand a legal system, we first need to understand the cultural, political, socio-economic context which grounds and surrounds its law. This book aims to provide the reader with the fundamental knowledge of this dynamic relationship.We can only claim to understand another legal system when we know the context surrounding the positive law in which lawyers are trained. To avoid ethnocentricity and superficiality, we must go beyond judicial decisions, doctrinal writings and the black-letter law of codes and statutes and probe the 'deeper structures' where law meets cultural, political, socio-economic factors. It is only when we acquire such awareness and knowledge of the critical factors affecting both the backgrounds and implications of rules that it becomes possible to control the present and possibly future developments of the world's legal institutions. This collection of essays aims to provide the reader with a fundamental understanding of the dynamic relationship between the law and its cultural, political and socio-economic context.
ISBN: 9780521895705
Dimensions: 236mm x 157mm x 23mm
Weight: 800g
424 pages