Comparative Law

Seán Patrick Donlan is the Associate Dean of the Thompson Rivers University, British Columbia, Canada.Jane Mair holds the position of Professor of Private Law at the University of Glasgow, UK.

• Of Mixes, Movements, and Metaphors: Esin Örücü’s Critical Comparative LawSeán Patrick Donlan and Jane MairIsland, Intersection, or In-Between? Legal Hybridity and Diffusion in the Seychellois Legal Tradition, c1715-1950Seán Patrick Donlan and Mathilda Twomey, CJLegislating for customary land tenure: a comparative querySue FarranFairness and diversity in the South African law of contractJacques du PlessisOn Kites and Ships: Climate Changes in Comparative Law and Judicial NavigationWerner MenskiOn Lifelong and Fixed-term Marriage: a Study in EstrangementJan M. SmitsWhat is the role of norms and values in the reception of law?Richard de Mulder and Helen GubbyThe Influence of the trias politica of Montesquieu on the first Dutch ConstitutionEmese von BónéA Legal Transplant: French Law in Dutch Shallow WatersTammo Wallinga The Rule of Law in Turkey: Two Steps Forward One Step BackMustafa KoçakThe Method of Comparative Law reconsidered in the light of Legal Epistemology and the Reception of Roman lawLaurens Winkel Hybrid Law and Culinary Metaphor – Empty Coquetting or Something Else?Jaakko Husa

'This book should be on the shelf of every serious comparative law lawyer. It pays homage to a great scholar, Esin Örücü, and her interdisciplinary approaches to comparative law. Law is on the move and there is nothing we can do to stop it; we need to embrace it. The contributions in this collection reopens old debates and conceive new ones but the end message is united; law is a messy affair and there is no one size fits all.'Christa Rautenbach, Faculty of Law, North-West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa