The method and culture of comparative law

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The method and culture of comparative law

Adams, M.; Heirbaut, D.

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2014

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The Method

and

Culture

of

Comparutive

Law

Edited

by

Maurice

Adams

and

Dirk

Heirbaut

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About

the Authors

r.

Prolegomena

to

the

Method

and Culture

of

Comparative

Law

r

Maurice

Adams

and

Dirk

Heirbaut

z.

What is

Legal

Epistemology?

zj

Geoffrey

Samuel

3. Comparative

Law

as

Method

arrd

the

Method

of

Comparative

Law

37

Jaap Hage

4.

Research Designs

of

Comparative

Law-Methodology

or

Heuristics?

53

Jaakko

Husa

j.

Law

as

Translation

69

Frangois

Ost

6. Controlled

Comparison and

Language

of

Description

87

Maurice

Adams

7. Three Functions

of

Function

in

Comparative Legal

Studies

₉₉

Catherine

Valcke

and Matheut

Grellette

8. Comparative

Law

and

Legal

History:

A

Few .Words about

Comparative Legal

History

rr3

Martin

Ldhnig

9. Comparative Contexts

in

Legal

History: Are

l0fe

_All

_Comparatists

Now?

rzr

Heikki

Pihlaiamiiki

ro.

The

Curious

Case

of

Overfitting

Legal

Transplants

ri

₃

Mathias

M

Siems

rr.

'Ius

commune', Comparative

Law

and Public

Governance

147

Akin

Wiiffels

rz.

Things

Being

Various:

Normativity,

Legality,

State

Legality

r6r

Sedn

Patrick Donlan

v

ix

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vlll

13. Against

Method?

L77

H

Patrick

Glenn

14. Comparatively

Speaking:

'Law in its

Regulatory

Environment'

r89

Roger

Broutnsword

15.

TlTe

lmportance

of

lnstitutions

zo7

.lohn

Bell

16. Livc

and

Lct Dic:

An

Essay

Conccrning Lcgal-Cultural

Understanding

zzr

larn

@yrebagen Sunde

17. Policy and Politics

in

Contract

Law

Reform

in

_Japan

₄₅

Souichirou

K<tzuka

and

Luke

Nottage

r8.

Thc

Eurocrises

and

Vhat

Socio-legal Studies

Could Do

about

Them,

or:

Comparing

Europeen Pluralisms

frorn

Legal Cultural

Approaches

zi5

.l o

xerramon

B en go e tx e a

r9.

Comparing

the

Legitimacy

of

Constitutional

Court

I)ccision-Making:

Deliberation

as

Method

269

Toon

Moonen

za.

Making

the

Casc

for

European

Comparativc Legal

Studics

in

Public

Law

283

Susan

Millns

zr.

Comparative

Law

and EU Legislation: Inspiration, Evaluation or

Justification?

3or

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About

the

Authors

Maurice Adams

is Profcssor

of

(lcncral _{.furispruclcncc ancl}

_'vfund'

_Profcssor

of

l)emocratic Governance and the

llule

of

Law at

'I'ilburg

University

John

Bell

is

Pr<lfessor

of

[-aw :rt rhc t.lniversity

of

Carnbriclge and

a

F'cllow

of

Penrhroke College, C-anrbridge

Joxerramon Bcngoctxca is Profcssor

of

_{Jurisprudencc ,rnd Sociology}

of

Law

at thc

Univcrsity

of

thc

Basquc

Country

ar Gipuzkoa.

Roger Brownsword

is

Profcssor

of

Law

at

King's

Collcgc

L<lnclon, ancl

Honorar,v Professor

in

Law at the Universit,v

of

Sheffield

Se6n

Patrick

Donlan

is Lecrurer

in

[-aw

at thc

LJniversity

of

Lirnerick

Rob

van Gcstel is l)rofcssor

of

'l'hcory and Mcthods

of

l-cg;islation

at'l'ilburg

University

Patrick Glenn

is the Peter

M

Laing Profcssor

of

Law ar

Mc()ill

University

Matthew

Grellette is adjunct

profcssor

iu

philosophy

of

law

at both

York

Univcrsity and

Wilfrid

Lauricr

Univcrsity

Jaap Hage is Professor

of

_{.furisprudence}ar rhe University

of

Mar.rstricht and Professor

of

Law

at

thc

University

of

Hasselt

Dirk

Heirbaut

is

Professor

_of

Lcgal

History

ancl Romirn

l-aw

at

Ghcnt

University

Jaakko Husa

is

Profcssor

of

Lcgal

Cultr-rrc

and

Legrrl Linguisrics

at

the

University

of

Lapland

Souichirou Kozuka

is Profcssor

at

Gakushuin Univcrsity Law FacultS -lirkyo

Martin Liihnig

is Professor

of

Civil

l-aw, and

of

(icrrnan _{and E,urope:rn Lcgrll}

History at

the University

of

Rcgcnsburg

Hans

Micklitz is

l)rofcssor

of

llcononric [,aw

at

rhe

liuropear.r Universiry

lnstitute

in

Florcnce

Susan

Millns

is

Profess<lr

of

l-aw

at

the University

of

Sussex

Toon Mooncn

is

F'cllow

of

thc

Rcscarch

Foundation-Flanders

(FWO) and

doctoral candidatc

at thc

Univcrsity

of

Ha.ssclt and

at Ghcnt

Univcrsity

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x

About

the Authors

Luke

Nottage

is

Professor

of

Comparative

and

'l'ransnational

Business

Law, University

of

Sydney Law School; Co-Director, Australian

Network for

Japanese

Law

(AN.JeL)

Francois

Ost

is l,rofessor

of

Law

at

the Universit6 Saint-Louis (Bruxelles)

Heikki

Pihlafamiiki

is

Professor

of

Comparative

Legal History

ar

the Urriversity

of

Helsinki

Geoffrey Samuel is Professor

of

Law ar the University

of

Kent, ar Canterbury

Mathias

Siems

is

Profcssor

of

Commcrcial

Laq

Durham

University, and

Research

Associate

ar

the

Centre

for

Business Research,

University

of

Ca$bridge

lorn

Qyrehagen Sunde

is

Professor

of

Law

at

rhe University

of

Bergen

Catherine

Valcke

is

Professor

of

Law ar

thc

Llniversity

of

Toronto

Faculty

of

Law

Alain Wiiffels

is Professor of Legal History and Comparative Caw, Universities

of

Leiden, Leuven and Louvain-la-Neuve, senior research fellow CNRS (CHJ

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