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Comparative law is a research methodology which has been increasingly fashionable in recent decades, as comparisons between common law and civil law have dominated the law studies landscape. There are many methods of comparative law in use, including comparison of legal rules, comparison of cases, and comparison of legal theories. Each of these methods has strong proponents and opponents. Dogmatic comparisons of rules are criticized for not giving the whole picture of law in action, but prais

In the popular imagination, the Middle Ages are often associated with lawlessness. However, historians have long recognized that medieval culture was characterized by an enormous respect for law and legal procedure. This book makes the case that one cannot understand the era's cultural trends without considering the profound development of law.

Explores the history of legal theatricality from antiquity to the eighteenth-century. It recovers a long tradition of jurisprudential thought about law as a form of theatre, a tradition that ancient, medieval, early modern, and later theorists transmitted across centuries, continually elaborating and reworking it to suit changing conditions.

Foreword To The Florence Integration Project Series -- Acknowledgements -- Table Of Contents (Book 1) -- Cumulative Table Of Cases -- Cumulative Table Of Treaty Provisions -- Cumulative Table Of Constitutional Provisions -- List Of Abbreviations -- Part I: Introduction -- Integration Through Law: Europe And The American Federal Experience � A General Introduction -- Part Ii: A Comparative Political, Legal And Economic Overview -- Federal Democracy: The U.S.A. And Europe Compared � A Political Science Perspective