Comparative Law : A Critical Introduction (Paperback)

Part 1: WHAT TO COMPARE: The law and the legal order 1. Comparative law and critique of legal positivism 2. An external point of view on law Part 2: WHY COMPARE: Taxonomy 3. Comparing to unite and comparing to divide 4. Systems and families of systems 5. The Western Legal Tradition Part 3: WHY COMPARE: Legal change 6. Explaining and promoting legal change 7. The market for reforms Part 4: HOW TO COMPARE: The methods of comparative law 8. Comparative law between science and method 9. Structuralism and functional analysis 10. The dissociation between techniques and values