Ⅰ.Comparative Law at a Cross-roads 1
1.Comparative Law and Comparative Legal Studies&DAVID NELKEN 3
2.Developing Comparative Law&ESIN ORUCU 43
Ⅱ.New Directions for Comparative Law 67
3.Globalisation and Comparative Law&WILLIAM TWINING 69
4.Com-paring&H PATRICK GLENN 91
5.Defining and Using the Concept of Legal Culture&DAVID NELKEN 109
6.Is it so Bad to be Different? Comparative Law and the Appreciation of Diversity&ROGER COTTERRELL 133
7.The Economic Approach: Competition between Legal Systems&ANTHONY OGUS 155
8.A General View of ‘Legal Families’ and of ‘Mixing Systems’&ESIN ORUCU 169
9.Beyond Europe&WERNER MENSKI 189
Ⅲ.New Territories for Comparative Law 217
10.Convergence of Private Law in Europe:Towards a New Ius Commune?&JAN M SMITS 219
11.Comparative Family Law: Moving with the Times?&MASHA ANTOKOLSKAIA 241
12.Comparative Commercial Law: Rules or Context?&NICHOLAS HD FOSTER 263
13.Administrative Law in a Comparative Perspective&JOHN BELL 287
14.Comparative Law in Constitutional Contexts&ANDREW HARDING AND PETER LEYLAND 313
15.Comparative Law for International Criminal Justice&PAUL ROBERTS 339
16.Judicial Comparativism and Human Rights&CHRISTOPHER MCCRUDDEN 371
17.Comparative Private Law in Practice: The Process of Law Reform&SJEF VAN ERP 399
18.Comparative Law in Practice: The Courts and the Legislator&ESIN ORUCU 411
19.A Project: Comparative Law in Action&ESIN ORUCU 435
Index 451