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Comparative Law in the 21st Century (Hardcover)
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If one were to define a lawyer's practice as "comparative law", who
would not smile at the naivety expressed by such a confusion of the
academic and the "practical"? Yet such a definition comes close to
reality for an increasing number of practitioners. As society
becomes more global and multicultural, many lawyers find themselves
researching and applying principles and rules from several legal
traditions. In Europe especially, the gradual convergence of civil
law and common law that has been under way for decades is now
gaining depth and breadth from aspects of Islamic, Asian and
African legal cultures, and we are all the better for it. So it is
time to take stock of where the discipline of comparative law
stands and where it is going, a task undertaken in the 16 essays in
this book. The originals of these papers were delivered at the 2000
W.G. Hart Legal Workshop at the Institute of Legal Studies of the
University of London. They may be read here as not merely
comparative law studies, but penetrating theses about what
comparative law is actually about, or what it is for. The general
discussion tends to fall into three major areas: comparative public
law, focusing on the growing scrutiny worldwide on
constitutionalism, human rights, and administrative accountability;
transmigration of legal ideas and institutions, emphasizing the
need to look at similarities and differences from an "importation"
perspective as well as from the once-exclusive "exportation"
perspective; and the European dimension, in which the need for the
study of economic and social background and the role of law in the
political process has come to the fore.
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