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• Title:Comparative law / Mathias Siems.
  
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• Author/Creator:Siems, Mathias M., 1974- author.
  
• Published/Created:Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2014.
  

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  • Location:LAW LIBRARY (level 3)Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: K583 .S587 2014
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Comparative law.
  
• Description:xx, 416 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
  
• Series:Law in context.
  
• Summary:"This book presents a fresh contextualised and cosmopolitan perspective on comparative law for both students and scholars. It critically discusses established approaches to comparative law, but also presents more modern ones, such as socio-legal and numerical comparative law. Its contextualised approach draws on examples from politics, economics and development studies to provide an original contribution to topics of comparative law"-- Provided by publisher.
  "This book presents a fresh contextualised and cosmopolitan perspective on comparative law for both students and scholars. It critically discusses established approaches to comparative law, but also presents more modern ones, such as socio-legal and numerical comparative law. Its con-textualised approach draws on examples from politics, eco-nomics and development studies to provide an original con-tribution to topics of comparative law"-- Provided by publisher.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 318-400) and index.
  
• ISBN:9781107003750
  110700375X (hardback)
  9780521177177 (paperback)
  0521177170 (paperback)
  
• Contents:Why compare laws?
  What belongs to comparative law?
  Part I. Traditional comparative law
  The comparative legal method
  Common law and civil law
  Mapping the world's legal systems
  Part II. Extending the methods of comparative law
  Postmodern comparative law
  Socio-legal comparative law
  Numerical comparative law
  Part III. Global comparative law
  Legal transplants
  Fading state borders
  Comparative law and development
  Part IV. Comparative law as an open subject
  Implicit comparative law
  Outlook.