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Our society has never been so internationally connected. Companies operate worldwide, retail shelves are filled with products from far and wide, people travel like never before and maintain contacts from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe. Distant countries have never been so close. Anyone who is practising law today cannot escape this and will increasingly be confronted with cross-border legal issues. Therefore, today's jurists are expected to have knowledge of their own legal system as well as the law of foreign countries. For this reason, comparative law is integrated today in nearly every law programme at university.
Comparing Law offers you an introduction to comparative law. What is comparative law? Why do we compare law and, above all, what methodology does the discipline adopt? These and many other questions are discussed in Part 1 on law comparison as methodology and science. Further parts introduce you to the law of some key jurisdictions.
A selection of European countries, such as the UK, France and Germany are covered along with Belgium and the Netherlands. Not only global players, such as the United States, Russia, China, Japan, India and Brazil, are highlighted, but the law of Israel, Islamic law and African legal systems are presented as well. Last but not least, comparative law in practice is also illustrated by approaching a number of topics - both of public law and private law - in a comparative way.
Danny Pieters and Bert Demarsin help the reader to understand and appreciate how the law differs from country to country. Enjoy this fascinating and comparative journey of discovery through the world and its legal systems.
Contents
PREFACE, PART I - LAW COMPARISON CHAPTER 1. What is law comparison? CHAPTER 2. Why law comparison? CHAPTER 3. How to compare law CHAPTER 4. How to group countries COMPARING LAW PART II - EXPLORING SOME KEY JURISDICTIONS GENERAL INTRODUCTION CHAPTER 1. Belgium CHAPTER 2. The Netherlands CHAPTER 3. France CHAPTER 4. Germany CHAPTER 5. United Kingdom CHAPTER 6. United States of America CHAPTER 7. Russia CHAPTER 8. China CHAPTER 9. Japan COMPARING LAW CHAPTER 10. CHAPTER 11. India CHAPTER 12. Israel CHAPTER 13. Islamic law CHAPTER 14. African law PART III - SELECTED TOPICS GENERAL INTRODUCTION CHAPTER 1. Forms of state and authority CHAPTER 2. Persons and family CHAPTER 3. Obligations and liability BIBLIOGRAPHY.
