The Cambridge Companion to Comparative Law

Book Overview

We can only claim to understand another legal system when we know the context surrounding the positive law in which lawyers are trained. To avoid ethnocentricity and superficiality, we must go beyond judicial decisions, doctrinal writings and the black-letter law of codes and statutes and probe the 'deeper structures' where law meets cultural, political, socio-economic factors. It is only when we acquire such awareness and knowledge of the critical...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521720052
• ISBN13: 9780521720052
• Release Date: August 2012
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 422 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"