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Diapositives Versus Movies – The Inner Dynamics Of The Law And Its Comparative Account, Mauro Bussani, Ugo Mattei
Diapositives Versus Movies – The Inner Dynamics Of The Law And Its Comparative Account, Mauro Bussani, Ugo Mattei
Mauro Bussani
The paper is the introduction to the Cambridge Companion to Comparative Law. The book (as well as its introduction) goes through the variety of possible nuances of comparative law. Acknowledging that diverse working comparative methods can all be useful tools to the understanding of the legal phenomena, this preface sets up two provisos. One is that any method one relies on should enable the researcher to stay close to what the law is, to how the law lives in the different settings – regardless of what one would like (i.e. regardless of what any kind of personal and cultural bias …
Democracy And The Western Legal Tradition, Mauro Bussani
Democracy And The Western Legal Tradition, Mauro Bussani
Mauro Bussani
The availability of democracy is usually presented as a pre-requisite of any evaluation – be it political, economic or legal – of any country, and as an imperative to pursue (with or without Western help) for all societies that do not enjoy it. Yet, discussions about non-democratic systems, and the Western aspiration to transform them, often fail to take into account – as they actually should – the basic elements of Western democratic societies, the very fabric with which democracy is woven. The paper adopts a comparative law approach to the issue. It takes into account the historical, technical, and …