Comparative Law

List of figures
List of tables
Preface
List of abbreviations
1. Introduction
Part I. Traditional Comparative Law
2. The comparative legal method
3. Common law and Civil law
4. Mapping the world's legal systems
5. The diffusion of legal traditions
Part II. Extending the Methods of Comparative Law
6. Postmodern comparative law
7. Socio-legal comparative law
8. Numerical comparative law
9. Empirical comparative law
Part III. Global Comparative Law
10. Legal transplants and convergence
11. Comparative regional and international law
12. From transnational law to global law
13. Comparative law and development
Part IV. Comparative Law as an Open Subject
14. Implicit comparative law
15. Reflections and outlook
References
Index.

Mathias Siems is a Professor of Commercial Law at the University of Durham. He is also a Research Associate at the Centre for Business Research, University of Cambridge, a Research Associate at the London Centre for Corporate Governance and Ethics, Birkbeck, University of London, and an Invited Fellow at the Maastricht European Law Institute. He has previously held positions as professor at the University of East Anglia, reader at the University of Edinburgh, associate professor at the Riga Graduate School of Law, Fulbright Scholar at Harvard Law School, and Jean Monnet Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence. Support for the first edition of this book was provided by the Philip Leverhulme Prize 2010.