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The Cambridge Companion To Comparative Law / Edited By Mauro Bussani And Ugo Mattei, Ugo Mattei, Mauro Bussani
The Cambridge Companion To Comparative Law / Edited By Mauro Bussani And Ugo Mattei, Ugo Mattei, Mauro Bussani
Ugo Mattei
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 factors affecting both the backgrounds and implications of rules that it becomes possible to control the present and possibly future developments of the world's legal institutions. This collection of essays aims …
Schlesinger's Comparative Law, 7th Ed., Ugo Mattei, Teemu Ruskola, Antonio Gidi
Schlesinger's Comparative Law, 7th Ed., Ugo Mattei, Teemu Ruskola, Antonio Gidi
Ugo Mattei
This book enlarges the perspective of comparative law to include the experiences of the non-Western world, which increasingly occupies the center stage in a global approach to the law. Accordingly, the book incorporates diverse legal materials from Asia, Africa, and Latin America. In addition, it includes a greatly enhanced methodological discussion that brings the book up-to-date with the latest debates in the field.
The Common Core Of European Private Law : Essays On The Project / Edited By M. Bussani And U. Mattei., Ugo Mattei, Mauro Bussani
The Common Core Of European Private Law : Essays On The Project / Edited By M. Bussani And U. Mattei., Ugo Mattei, Mauro Bussani
Ugo Mattei
European private law is in the making. Many scholarly and official projects tackle the many issues that unfold in the path of a more uniform European legal culture. None of such projects has been as thorough and patient in trying to develop a general knowledge on how things are in the early-21st century in the landscape of European private law as the "Common Core of European Private Law Project", launched in Trento, Italy in 1993 with the direct involvement of the Late Professor R.B. Schlesinger. Within the Common Core Project, over 200 professionals apply a painstaking comparative analysis of European …