Methods of Comparative Law

Edited by Pier Giuseppe Monateri, Professor of Comparative Law, Department of Law, University of Turin, Italy

• Contents:IntroductionPier Giuseppe MonateriPART I: WHY ‘METHODS’? AN INTELLECTUAL PROJECT ON THE MULTILAYER STRUCTURE OF LEGAL COMPARATIVISM1. Methods in Comparative Law: An Intellectual OverviewPier Giuseppe Monateri2. Intent on Making Mischief: Seven Ways of Using Comparative LawMads Andenas and Duncan Fairgrieve3. Method?Simone Glanert4. Comparison as Deep AppreciationGary WattPART II: REVISITING CLASSICAL THEORIES AND PERSPECTIVES ON COMPARATIVE LEGAL METHODOLOGIES: A CRITICAL GLANCE5. The Functional MethodJames Gordley6. How to do Projects with Comparative Law: Notes of an Expedition to the Common CoreGünter Frankenberg7. Descriptive and Purposive Categories of Comparative LawSebastian McEvoyPART III: LEGAL TRANSPLANTS AND TRANSNATIONAL CODES: QUESTIONING ON CULTURAL BIASES AND SCIENTIFIC STATEMENTS8. All that Heaven Allows: Are Transnational Codes a ‘Scientific Truth’ or Are They Just a Form of Elegant ‘Pastiche’?Geoffrey Samuel9. Contextualizing Legal Transplant: China and Hong KongChen LeiPART IV: SPACE, BOUNDARIES AND JURISDICTIONS: THE CHOREOGRAPHIC SPECTRALITY OF LAW10. Interstitium and Non-lawPeter Goodrich11. The Iconicity of Space: Comparative Law and the Geopolitics of JurisdictionsCristina CostantiniPART V: LEGAL NARRATIVES, JUDICIAL INTERPRETATIONS AND SUBVERSIVE PARADIGMS12. The Resilience of History: Comparative Legal Theory and the End of the American CenturyAnthony Louis Marasco13. Iudex Translator: The Reign of FinitudeJeanne Gaakeer14. Further Terrains for Subversive Comparison: The Field of Global Governance and the Public/Private DivideHoratia Muir WattPART VI: POLITICAL ECONOMIES AND THE INNER POLICIES OF LAW: TOWARDS A ‘COMPARATIVE LAW AND ECONOMICS’ ASSESSMENT15. Towards the Economics of Comparative Law: The Doing Business DebateAntonio Nicita and Simona Benedettini16. Quantitative Methods in Comparative LawFrancesco Parisi and Barbara LuppiIndex

‘Extensively footnoted throughout, the book takes its place as part of Elgar’s Research Handbooks in Comparative Law series - the first of its kind, apparently, to cover such a broad range of comparative law issues. The orientation is global; the approach scholarly. This is a book which will no doubt interest the worldwide community of law academics and academic lawyers. Offering up some of the latest thinking on this subject, it contains much food for thought.’