Comparing Law
Comparative Law as Reconstruction of Collective Commitments

17th Oct 2024 by UName-456522

FROM THE CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS: A NEW PERSPECTIVE ON COMPARATIVE LAW An appreciation by Elizabeth Robson Taylor of Richmond Green Chambers and Phillip Taylor MBE, Head of Chambers and Reviews Editor of “The Barrister” An appreciation by Elizabeth Robson Taylor of Richmond Green Chambers and Phillip Taylor MBE, Head of Chambers and Reviews Editor, “The Barrister” This book certainly excels as a penetrating analysis of current issues and developments in comparative law. As a Full Professor of Law at the University of Toronto, its author, Catherine Valcke, has sought to establish comparative law — quite convincingly as it happens — as a separate and distinct area of study, worthy of a much more intensified academic scrutiny than that which has been generally accepted in many academic circles. It seems that Valcke has cast an extremely critical eye on certain dismissive attitudes towards comparative law on the part of a number of its detractors, (many of them in North America presumably) who, as one might infer, have apparently tended to view the subject with a certain degree of disdain. Valcke has emphasized to the contrary that comparative law should ideally be regarded as, one might say, a ‘stand-alone’ legal discipline in its own right ‘distinct,' she says ‘from legal history, legal philosophy, legal sociology and so on.’ Interestingly and illustratively, the book — a new title from the Cambridge University Press (CUP) — presents a considerable number of references to traditional philosophy — and sociology too — from Aristotle to, for example, Rousseau and Kant to Dworkin, not to mention sociologist Max Weber — and a whole lot more from the world of jurisprudence and philosophy. The book has been published as part of the CUP’s ASCL Studies in Comparative Law series, the American Society of Comparative Law, being a leading voice in the study and analysis of this, sometimes controversial, subject area. Consequently, we found that the book presents a formidable array of carefully substantiated arguments in its examination of the key complexities of comparative law, including its analytical framework, its methodology and its jurisprudence. This is certainly a ground-breaking study of an area of law, that with increasing globalization, becomes ever increasingly important. The date of publication of this paperback is cited as at 25th October 2018.

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