Overview
Uwe Kischel's comprehensive treatise on comparative law offers a critical introduction to the central tenets of comparative legal scholarship. The first part of the book is dedicated to general aspects of comparative law. The controversial question of methods, in particular, is addressed by explaining and discussing different approaches, and by developing a contextual approach that seeks to engage with real-world issues and takes a practical perspective on contemporary comparative legal scholarship. The second part of the book offers a detailed treatment of the major legal contexts across the globe, including common law, civil law systems (based on Germany and France, and extended to Eastern Europe, Scandinavia, and Latin America, among others), the African context (with an emphasis on customary law), different contexts in Asia, Islamic law and law in Islamic countries (plus a brief treatment of Jewish law and canon law), and transnational contexts (public international law, European Union law, and lex mercatoria). The book offers a coherent treatment of global legal systems that aims not only to describe their varying norms and legal institutions but to propose a better way of seeking to understand how the overall context of legal systems influences legal thinking and legal practice.
Full Product Details
Author: Uwe Kischel (Mercator Professor of Public Law, European Law, and Comparative Law, Mercator Professor of Public Law, European Law, and Comparative Law, University of Greifswald) ,
Andrew Hammel (translated by)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 17.90cm
, Height: 5.90cm
, Length: 24.90cm
Weight: 1.818kg
ISBN: 9780198791355
ISBN 10: 0198791356
Pages: 960
Publication Date: 28 February 2019
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
What we get here is a work which gives us a coherent treatment of global legal systems . It's aim is not only to depict their varying norms and legal institutions but to offer a better way of seeking to understand how the overall context of legal systems influences legal thinking and legal practice which it does in spades. * Phillip Taylor MBE, Head of Chambers, and Elizabeth Taylor, Richmond Green Chamber *
The book not only offers to describe the varying norms and legal institutions but also proposes a better way of seeking to understand how the overall context of legal systems influences legal thinking and legal practice * H. W. Micklitz, Journal of Consumer Policy * What we get here is a work which gives us a coherent treatment of global legal systems . It's aim is not only to depict their varying norms and legal institutions but to offer a better way of seeking to understand how the overall context of legal systems influences legal thinking and legal practice which it does in spades. * Phillip Taylor MBE, Head of Chambers, and Elizabeth Taylor, Richmond Green Chamber *
Author Information
Uwe Kischel is Mercator Professor of Public Law, European Law, and Comparative Law at the University of Greifswald. Translated by Andrew Hammel.
