Maurice Adams is Professor of General Jurisprudence at the University of Tilburg. Dirk Heirbaut is Professor of Legal History and Roman Law at Ghent University.

• 1. Prolegomena to the Method and Culture of Comparative Law Maurice Adams and Dirk Heirbaut2. What is Legal Epistemology? Geoffrey Samuel3. Comparative Law as Method and the Method of ComparativeLaw Jaap Hage4. Research Designs of Comparative Law—Methodology orHeuristics? Jaakko Husa5. Law as Translation François Ost6. Controlled Comparison and Language of Description Maurice Adams7. Three Functions of Function in Comparative Legal Studies Catherine Valcke and Mathew Grellette8. Comparative Law and Legal History: A Few Words aboutComparative Legal History Martin Löhnig9. Comparative Contexts in Legal History: Are We AllComparatists Now? Heikki Pihlajamäki10. The Curious Case of Overfi tting Legal Transplants Mathias M Siems11. ‘Ius commune’, Comparative Law and Public Governance Alain Wijffelsviii12. Things Being Various: Normativity, Legality, State Legality Seán Patrick Donlan13. Against Method? H Patrick Glenn14. Comparatively Speaking: ‘Law in its Regulatory Environment’ Roger Brownsword15. The Importance of Institutions John Bell16. Live and Let Die: An Essay Concerning Legal-CulturalUnderstanding Jørn Øyrehagen Sunde17. Policy and Politics in Contract Law Reform in Japan Souichirou Kozuka and Luke Nottage18. The Eurocrises and What Socio-legal Studies Could Do aboutThem, or: Comparing European Pluralisms from LegalCultural Approaches Joxerramon Bengoetxea19. Comparing the Legitimacy of Constitutional Court Decision-Making: Deliberation as Method Toon Moonen20. Making the Case for European Comparative Legal Studies inPublic Law Susan Millns21. Comparative Law and EU Legislation: Inspiration, Evaluationor Justifi cation? Rob van Gestel and Hans-W Micklitz

In this beautifully produced volume, leading theorists and researchers look at significant aspects of their fields…As a whole, the most important contribution of this volume, however, is having collected essays which all indicate, in various ways, the role of comparative law in enhancing knowledge not only of law but also society, of context and interdisciplinary approaches, and of the significant place of imaginative interpretation for our understanding of law and society.

Maurice Adams is Professor of General Jurisprudence at the University of Tilburg. Dirk Heirbaut is Professor of Legal History and Roman Law at Ghent University.

• 1. Prolegomena to the Method and Culture of Comparative Law Maurice Adams and Dirk Heirbaut2. What is Legal Epistemology? Geoffrey Samuel3. Comparative Law as Method and the Method of ComparativeLaw Jaap Hage4. Research Designs of Comparative Law—Methodology orHeuristics? Jaakko Husa5. Law as Translation François Ost6. Controlled Comparison and Language of Description Maurice Adams7. Three Functions of Function in Comparative Legal Studies Catherine Valcke and Mathew Grellette8. Comparative Law and Legal History: A Few Words aboutComparative Legal History Martin Löhnig9. Comparative Contexts in Legal History: Are We AllComparatists Now? Heikki Pihlajamäki10. The Curious Case of Overfi tting Legal Transplants Mathias M Siems11. ‘Ius commune’, Comparative Law and Public Governance Alain Wijffelsviii12. Things Being Various: Normativity, Legality, State Legality Seán Patrick Donlan13. Against Method? H Patrick Glenn14. Comparatively Speaking: ‘Law in its Regulatory Environment’ Roger Brownsword15. The Importance of Institutions John Bell16. Live and Let Die: An Essay Concerning Legal-CulturalUnderstanding Jørn Øyrehagen Sunde17. Policy and Politics in Contract Law Reform in Japan Souichirou Kozuka and Luke Nottage18. The Eurocrises and What Socio-legal Studies Could Do aboutThem, or: Comparing European Pluralisms from LegalCultural Approaches Joxerramon Bengoetxea19. Comparing the Legitimacy of Constitutional Court Decision-Making: Deliberation as Method Toon Moonen20. Making the Case for European Comparative Legal Studies inPublic Law Susan Millns21. Comparative Law and EU Legislation: Inspiration, Evaluationor Justifi cation? Rob van Gestel and Hans-W Micklitz

In this beautifully produced volume, leading theorists and researchers look at significant aspects of their fields…As a whole, the most important contribution of this volume, however, is having collected essays which all indicate, in various ways, the role of comparative law in enhancing knowledge not only of law but also society, of context and interdisciplinary approaches, and of the significant place of imaginative interpretation for our understanding of law and society.

Maurice Adams is Professor of General Jurisprudence at the University of Tilburg. Dirk Heirbaut is Professor of Legal History and Roman Law at Ghent University.

• 1. Prolegomena to the Method and Culture of Comparative Law Maurice Adams and Dirk Heirbaut2. What is Legal Epistemology? Geoffrey Samuel3. Comparative Law as Method and the Method of ComparativeLaw Jaap Hage4. Research Designs of Comparative Law—Methodology orHeuristics? Jaakko Husa5. Law as Translation François Ost6. Controlled Comparison and Language of Description Maurice Adams7. Three Functions of Function in Comparative Legal Studies Catherine Valcke and Mathew Grellette8. Comparative Law and Legal History: A Few Words aboutComparative Legal History Martin Löhnig9. Comparative Contexts in Legal History: Are We AllComparatists Now? Heikki Pihlajamäki10. The Curious Case of Overfi tting Legal Transplants Mathias M Siems11. ‘Ius commune’, Comparative Law and Public Governance Alain Wijffelsviii12. Things Being Various: Normativity, Legality, State Legality Seán Patrick Donlan13. Against Method? H Patrick Glenn14. Comparatively Speaking: ‘Law in its Regulatory Environment’ Roger Brownsword15. The Importance of Institutions John Bell16. Live and Let Die: An Essay Concerning Legal-CulturalUnderstanding Jørn Øyrehagen Sunde17. Policy and Politics in Contract Law Reform in Japan Souichirou Kozuka and Luke Nottage18. The Eurocrises and What Socio-legal Studies Could Do aboutThem, or: Comparing European Pluralisms from LegalCultural Approaches Joxerramon Bengoetxea19. Comparing the Legitimacy of Constitutional Court Decision-Making: Deliberation as Method Toon Moonen20. Making the Case for European Comparative Legal Studies inPublic Law Susan Millns21. Comparative Law and EU Legislation: Inspiration, Evaluationor Justifi cation? Rob van Gestel and Hans-W Micklitz

In this beautifully produced volume, leading theorists and researchers look at significant aspects of their fields…As a whole, the most important contribution of this volume, however, is having collected essays which all indicate, in various ways, the role of comparative law in enhancing knowledge not only of law but also society, of context and interdisciplinary approaches, and of the significant place of imaginative interpretation for our understanding of law and society.