Interdisciplinary study and comparative law / edited by Nicholas HD Foster, Maria Federica Moscati and Michael Palmer.

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English
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  • London : Wildy, Simmonds & Hill, [2016]
  • ©2016
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286 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

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    "This book, which is dedicated to the memory of distinguished scholar Professor Simon Roberts, is a collection of essays exploring themes and issues in the relationship between comparative legal studies and other disciplines in the social sciences and humanities. Law does not exist in a vacuum, and an appreciation of the social, cultural and other factors affecting it may often be helpful for a sounder understanding of its nature and significance, especially when law is considered in a broader, comparative, context. Insights drawn from other disciplines may therefore be especially appropriate for comparative legal studies, but the use of those insights raises various questions, suchs as the manner in which other disciplines--given their own distinctive concerns and modes of analysis--characterise the nature and significance of law and legal institutions. Interdisciplinary study also encourages us to ask how cognate disciplines and their arguments are seen, used and maltreated in comparative legal studies, as well as the pitfalls which await scholars from other disciplines who venture into law. The essays in this collection offer a unique contribution to these and other aspects of the use of interdisciplinarity in comparative law"--Back cover.
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    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    Contents
    • Introduction / Nicholas HD Foster, Maria Federica Moscati, and Michael Palmer
    • Literary model in comparative law : Shakespeare, Corneille, Racine / Eric Heinze
    • Interdisciplinary comparative law
    • between Scylla and Charybdis? / Jaakko Husa
    • Leximetric approach to comparative corporate governance : the case of hedge fund activism / Dionysia Katelouzou
    • Translating ambiguity / Karen McAuliffe
    • Comparison in the anthropology and history of law / Fernanda Pirie
    • View from the coal face : interdisciplinary influences on family mediation in the United Kingdom / Marian Roberts
    • 'Listing concentrates the mind' : the English Civil Court as an arena for structured negotiation / Simon Roberts
    • Review of Simon Roberts' last book : A Court in the City: Civil and Commercial Litigation at the Beginning of the 21st Century / Ross Cranston
    • Bringing in foreign ideas : the quest for 'better law' in implicity comparative law / Mathias Siems
    • Comparative law and economics and the 'egg-laying wool-milk sow' / Florian Wagner-von Papp
    • Poverty of economics and the hope for humanities in comparative law / Gary Watt.
    ISBN
    • 9780854902101
    • 0854902104
    OCLC
    960642915
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