Comparative Law: A Very Short Introduction

by Sabrina Ragone, Guido Smorto

Overview

Sabrina Ragone and Guido Smorto provide a concise introduction to the field of comparative law, explaining how it is used by legislators, judges, international organizations and scholars, and demonstrating that legal comparison challenges conventional beliefs and unquestioned assumptions about law and society.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780192645470
Publisher:	OUP Oxford
Publication date:	11/28/2023
Series:	Very Short Introductions
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	160
Sales rank:	701,754
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Sabrina Ragone is a Professor of Comparative Law of the Department of Political and Social Sciences of the University of Bologna, which she holds the post of Head of International Relations. She is also Senior Research Affiliate of the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law (Heidelberg), where she pursued her research between 2015 and 2017. Previously, she was Garc?a Pelayo Fellow at the Centro de Estudios Pol?ticos y Constitucionales - Madrid (2012-2015) and researcher at the Universidad Aut?noma de Barcelona (2011-2012). She has held visiting positions in the USA (Boston College, Michigan Law School, Texas A&M), Argentina, Colombia, Chile, Mexico, Germany, and France. She specialises in comparative methodology, constitutional adjudication, European, and Latin American constitutionalism. Guido Smorto is a Full Professor of Comparative Private Law at University of Palermo, where he holds the EU Jean Monnet Chair in Comparative and European Digital Law. He has held research and visiting professor positions in several academic institutions in Europe, as well as in the US, Japan, and Latin America, and has written and edited articles and books in Italian, English, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, French, Portuguese, and Catalan. He gives talks and lectures in Italy and abroad. Smorto specialises in private comparative law. His latest scholarly works focus mainly on comparative and European digital law. He is also Vice President of Societ? Italiana per la Ricerca nel Diritto Comparato (SIRD).

Table of Contents

1. What is comparative law? 2. Classifying legal systems3. Legal traditions4. Methods and approaches5. Sameness and difference6. What for? The uses of comparative lawBibliography

Editorial Reviews

"This slim volume by two Italian professors of comparative law is to be commended for what it distils into 130 very readable pages. The concise, clear prose provides room for practical examples." — Charles Clark, Law Society Gazette

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