"Contents" [2012] ELECD 574; in Monateri, Giuseppe Pier (ed), "Methods of Comparative Law" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2012)

Book Title: Methods of Comparative Law

Editor(s): Monateri, Giuseppe Pier

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781849802529

Section Title: Contents

Number of pages: 2

Extract:

Contents


List of contributors vii

Introduction 1
Pier Giuseppe Monateri

PART I WHY `METHODS'? AN INTELLECTUAL PROJECT ON THE
MULTILAYER STRUCTURE OF LEGAL COMPARATIVISM

1 Methods in comparative law: an intellectual overview 7
Pier Giuseppe Monateri
2 Intent on making mischief: seven ways of using comparative law 25
Mads Andenas and Duncan Fairgrieve
3 Method? 61
Simone Glanert
4 Comparison as deep appreciation 82
Gary Watt

PART II REVISITING CLASSICAL THEORIES AND PERSPECTIVES
ON COMPARATIVE LEGAL METHODOLOGIES:
A CRITICAL GLANCE

5 The functional method 107
James Gordley
6 How to do projects with comparative law: notes of an expedition to the
common core 120
Günter Frankenberg
7 Descriptive and purposive categories of comparative law 144
Sebastian McEvoy

PART III LEGAL TRANSPLANTS AND TRANSNATIONAL CODES:
QUESTIONING ON CULTURAL BIASES AND SCIENTIFIC
STATEMENTS

8 All that heaven allows: are transnational codes a `scientific truth' or are
they just a form of elegant `pastiche'? 165
Geoffrey Samuel
9 Contextualizing legal transplant: China and Hong Kong 192
Chen Lei


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PART IV SPACE, BOUNDARIES AND JURISDICTIONS: THE CHOREOGRAPHIC
SPECTRALITY OF LAW

10 Interstitium and non-law 213
Peter Goodrich
11 The iconicity of space: comparative law and the geopolitics of jurisdictions 230
Cristina Costantini

PART V LEGAL NARRATIVES, JUDICIAL INTERPRETATIONS AND
SUBVERSIVE PARADIGMS

12 The resilience of history: comparative legal theory and the end of the
American century 243
Anthony Louis Marasco
13 Iudex translator: the reign of finitude 252
Jeanne Gaakeer
14 Further terrains for subversive comparison: ...