Voici donc un livre passionnant, tant par son contenu que par sa forme. D'une ecriture elegante mais claire et ferme, d'une liberte de ton rejouissante, il offre au lecteur une methode fondee sur l'experience et un tresor d'informations qui le met au fait des derniers developpements dans le domaine du droit compare. P. Marchal Revue de droit international et de droit compare 2009 No. 4 Markesinis' and Fedtke's excellence of scholarship and breadth of erudition is beyond doubt, and so is the richness of the topics dealt with in Engaging with Foreign Law. Carsten Gerner-Beuerle King's Law Journal Vol. 20, Issue 3, 2009

This book presents a developed theory of how national lawyers can approach, understand, and make use of foreign law. Its theme is pursued through a set of detailed essays which look at the courts as well as business practice and, with the help of statistics, demonstrate what type of academic work has any impact on the 'real' world. Engaging with Foreign Law thus aims to carve out a new niche for comparative law in this era of globalisation, and may also be the only book which deals in some depth with both private and public law in countries such as England, Germany, France, South Africa, and the United States.
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This book presents a developed theory of how national lawyers can approach, understand, and make use of foreign law.

1. Reflections on the State of Comparative Law I: The Twilight of the Heroes
2. Reflections on the State of Comparative Law II: The Era of Societal Needs
3. Spreading the Gospel (and the Name of the Evangelist)
4. South Africa
5. The Situation in Germany
6. The Reluctance to Borrow Ideas from Abroad: Two Strange Bedfellows— The United States and France
7. The Focused Approach in Public Law: A Look at English and French Law
8. Another Lesson on Packaging: The Grey Zone where Tort Law Overlaps with Administrative Law
9. Foreign Law Inspiring National Law: Lessons from Greatorex v Greatorex
10. Comparative Law in Commercial Practice
11. Reflecting on the Future: The Subject and its Teachers

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Product details

ISBN
9781841139470
Published
2009-03-30
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Height
244 mm
Width
177 mm
Thickness
23 mm
Age
P, 06
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Number of pages
464

Biographical note

Sir Basil Markesinis QC is a Fellow of the British Academy, a Foreign Fellow of the Accademia dei Lincei of Rome, the Royal Belgian Academy of Arts and Sciences in Brussels, the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in Amsterdam, and a Correspondng Fellow of the Academy of Athens and the Academie des Sciences Morales et Politques in France. He is a Bencher of Gray's Inn. Professor Jorg Fedtke studied law and political science at the University of Hamburg in Germany. He held the Chair for Comparative Law at University College London, where he was also Director of the Institute of Global Law. He is now AN Yiannopoulos Professor in Comparative Law at Tulane University Law School in the United States.