The Cambridge Companion to Comparative Law

Editors' preface. Diapositives v. movies: the inner dynamics of the law and its comparative account: a companion M. Bussani and U. Mattei; Part I. Knowing Comparative Law: 1. Comparative law and neighbouring disciplines M. Reimann; 2. Political ideology and comparative law Duncan Kennedy; 3. Economic analysis and comparative law N. Garoupa and T. Ginsburg; 4. Comparative law and anthropology Lawrence Rosen; 5. Comparative law and language B. Pozzo; Part II. Comparative Law Fields: 6. Comparative studies in private law (insights from a European point of view) F. Werro; 7. Comparative administrative law F. Bignami; 8. Comparative constitutional law G. Frankenberg; 9. Comparative criminal justice E. Grande; 10. Comparative civil justice O. Chase and V. Varano; 11. Comparative law and the international organizations G. Bermann; Part III. Comparative Law in the Flux of Civilizations: 12. The East-Asian legal tradition T. Ruskola; 13. The Jewish legal tradition A. J. Jacobson and J. D.Bleich; 14. The Islamic legal tradition Khaled Abou El Fadl; 15. The Sub-Saharan legal tradition R. Sacco; 16. The Latin American and Caribbean legal tradition (repositioning Latin America and the Caribbean in the contemporary maps of comparative law) D. Lopez Medina; 17. Mixed legal systems V. Palmer; 18. Democracy and the Western legal tradition M. Bussani.

Bussani, Mauro
Mauro Bussani is Professor of Comparative Law at the University of Trieste and Scientific Director of the International Association of Legal Sciences (IALS). He is a prolific author and member of numerous prestigious international academic institutions. Alongside Professor Ugo Mattei, he is co-editor of the Common Core of European Private Law series.