BOOK: Mathias REIMANN and Reinhard ZIMMERMANN (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Law (Oxford: OUP, 2019), 1536 p., 145 GBP ISBN 9780199296064

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Book abstract:

The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Law provides a wide-ranging and highly diverse survey as well as a critical assessment of comparative law at the beginning of the twenty-first century. It summarizes and evaluates a discipline that is time-honoured but not easily understood in all its dimensions. The book contains forty-three articles. The aim of each article is to provide an accessible, original, and critical account of comparative law in its respective area. Each article also includes a short bibliography referencing the definitive works in the field. The book is divided into three main sections. Section I surveys how comparative law has developed and where it stands today in various parts of the world. This includes not only traditional model jurisdictions, such as France, Germany, and the United States, but also other regions like Eastern Europe, East Asia, and Latin America. Section II discusses the major approaches to comparative law — its methods, goals, and its relationship with other fields, such as legal history, economics, and linguistics. Finally, Section III deals with the status of comparative studies in over a dozen subject matter areas, including the major categories of private, economic, public, and criminal law.

See table of contents :

PART I THE DEVELOPMENT OF COMPARATIVE LAW IN THE WORLD1: Comparative Law before the Code Napoléon, Charles Donahue2: Development of Comparative Law in France, Benedicte Fauvarque-Cosson3: Development of Comparative Law in Germany, Switzerland, and Austria, Ingeborg Schwenzer4: Development of Comparative Law in Italy, Elisabetta Grande5: Development of Comparative Law in Great Britain, John W. Cairns6: Development of Comparative Law in the United States, David S. Clark7: Development of Comparative Law in Central and Eastern Europe, Zdenek Kuhn8: Development of Comparative Law in Japan, Luke Nottage9: Development of Comparative Law in China, Taisu Zhang10: Development of Comparative Law in Latin America, Jan KleinheisterkampPART II APPROACHES TO COMPARATIVE LAW11: Comparative Law and Comparative Knowledge, Nils Jansen12: Comparative Law and Legal Education, Nora Demleitner13: The Functional Method of Comparative Law, Ralf Michaels14: Comparative Law: Study of Similarities or Differences?, Gerhard Dannemann15: Comparative Legal Families and Comparative Legal Traditions, H. Patrick Glenn16: Comparative Law, Legal Transplants, and Receptions, Michele Graziadei17: Comparative Law and the Study of Mixed Legal Systems, Jacques du Plessis18: Comparative Law and its Influence on National Legal Systems, Jan M. Smit19: Comparative Law and European Union Law, Francis Jacobs20: Comparative Law and the Europeanization of Private Law, Reinhard Zimmerman21: Globalization and Comparative Law, Horatia Muir Watt22: Comparative Law and the Islamic (Middle Eastern) Legal Culture, Chibli Mallat23: Comparative Law and African Customary Law, T. W. Bennett24: Comparative Law and Language, Vivian Grosswald Curran25: Comparative Law and Legal Culture, Roger Cotterrell26: Comparative Law and Religion, James Whitman27: Comparative Law and Legal History, James Gordley28: Comparative Law and Socio-legal Studies, Annelise Riles29: Comparative Law and Critical Legal Studies, Ugo Mattei30: Comparative Law and Economic Analysis of Law, Florian Faust31: New Directions in Comparative Law, Mathias SiemsPART III SUBJECT AREAS32: Sources of Law and Legal Method in Comparative Law, Stefan Vogenauer33: Comparative Contract Law, Hein Koetz34: Comparative Sales Law, Peter Huber35: Unjustified Enrichment in Comparative Perspective, Daniel Visser36: Comparative Tort Law, Gerhard Wagner37: Comparative Property Law, Sjef van Erp38: Comparative Succession Law, Marius J. de Waal39: Comparative Family Law, Jens M. Scherpe40: Comparative Labour Law, Matthew W. Finkin41: Comparative Company Law, Klaus J. Hopt42: Comparative Competition Law, David J. Gerber43: Comparative Constitutional Law, Mark Tushnet44: Comparative Human Rights Law, Samantha Besson45: Comparative Administrative Law, John S. Bell46: Comparative Criminal Law, Markus D. Dubber47: Comparative Civil Procedure, Joachim Zekoll48: Comparative Law and Private International Law, Mathias Reimann

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