The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Law (Oxford Handbooks)

Product Description

This fully revised and updated second edition of
The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Law provides a wide-ranging and diverse critical survey of comparative law at the beginning of the twenty-first century. It summarizes and evaluates a discipline that is time-honoured but not easily understood
in all its dimensions. In the current era of globalization, this discipline is more relevant than ever, both on the academic and on the practical level.

The
Handbook is divided into three main sections. Section I surveys how comparative law has developed and where it stands today in various parts of the world. This includes not only traditional model jurisdictions, such as France, Germany, and the United States, but also other regions like Eastern
Europe, East Asia, and Latin America. Section II then discusses the major approaches to comparative law – its methods, goals, and its relationship with other fields, such as legal history, economics, and linguistics. Finally, section III deals with the status of comparative studies in over a dozen
subject matter areas, including the major categories of private, economic, public, and criminal law.

The
Handbook contains forty-eight chapters written by experts from around the world. The aim of each chapter is to provide an accessible, original, and critical account of the current state of comparative law in its respective area which will help to shape the agenda in the years to come. Each
chapter also includes a short bibliography referencing the definitive works in the field.

About the Author

Mathias Reimann,
Hessel E. Yntema Professor of Law, The University of Michigan,Reinhard Zimmermann,
Hamburg, Director of the Max Planck Institute for Foreign Private and Private International Law

Mathias Reimann is Hessel E. Yntema Professor of Law at The University of Michigan.

Reinhard Zimmermann is Director of the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, Hamburg, and an Affiliate Professor at Bucerius Law School.