Comparative Legal Studies Traditions and Transitions [Paperback]

This 2003 text examines comparative law's intellectual traditions, the strengths and failings of its methodologies and its future directions.These fourteen essays, written by leading international comparatists, offer an authoritative review of the current state of comparative legal studies. With backgrounds in law, political science, sociology, history and anthropology, contributors examine comparative law's intellectual traditions, the strengths and failings of its methodologies and, most importantly, future directions the subject is likely to take. This is the most comprehensive study of the philosophical and methodological foundations of comparative law and is a book with whose ideas and arguments every comparatist in future will have no option but to engage.These fourteen essays, written by leading international comparatists, offer an authoritative review of the current state of comparative legal studies. With backgrounds in law, political science, sociology, history and anthropology, contributors examine comparative law's intellectual traditions, the strengths and failings of its methodologies and, most importantly, future directions the subject is likely to take. This is the most comprehensive study of the philosophical and methodological foundations of comparative law and is a book with whose ideas and arguments every comparatist in future will have no option but to engage.These fourteen essays present an authoritative review of the current state of comparative legal studies. With backgrounds in law, political science, sociology, history and anthropology, the contributors examine comparative law's intellectual traditions; the strengths and failings of its methodologies; and, most importantly, future directions the subject is likely to take. This comprehensive study of the philosophical and methodological foundations of comparative law is a book with ideas and arguments every comparatist scholar is drawn to.1. Introduction: accounting for an encounter Roderickl“0