Suchergebnisse

Introduction -- The comparative legal method -- Common law and civil law -- Mapping the world's legal systems -- The diffusion of legal traditions -- Postmodern comparative law -- Socio-legal comparative law -- Numerical comparative law -- Empirical comparative law -- Legal transplants and convergence -- Comparative regional and international law -- From transnational law to global law -- Comparative law and development -- Implicit comparative law -- Reflections and outlook.

"Students who enroll in an introductory course on comparative politics should be prepared to encounter some tough but fascinating questions: Why are some states democracies while others are not? Why does ethnicity seem to be at the heart of so much conflict in the world today?"--