Elgar Encyclopedia of Comparative Law, Second Edition
Edited by Jan M. Smits
- Elgar Encyclopedia of Comparative Law, Second Edition
- Copyright
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Chapter 1: Accident compensation*
- Chapter 2: Administrative law*
- Chapter 3: Agency and representation*
- Chapter 4: The aims of comparative law*
- Chapter 5: American law (United States)*
- Chapter 6: Arbitration*
- Chapter 7: Assignment*
- Chapter 8: Australia
- Chapter 9: Belgium
- Chapter 10: Canada
- Chapter 11: China
- Chapter 12: Civil procedure*
- Chapter 13: Commercial regulation*
- Chapter 14: Common law*
- Chapter 15: Comparative law and economics*
- Chapter 16: Competition law*
- Chapter 17: Consideration*
- Chapter 18: Constitutional law*
- Chapter 19: Consumer protection*
- Chapter 20: Coordination of legal systems*
- Chapter 21: Corporate responsibility*
- Chapter 22: Criminal law and criminal procedure*
- Chapter 23: The Czech Republic
- Chapter 24: Damages (in tort)*
- Chapter 25: England and Wales
- Chapter 26: European Civil Code*
- Chapter 27: Family law*
- Chapter 28: Finland
- Chapter 29: France
- Chapter 30: German law
- Chapter 31: Greece
- Chapter 32: Human rights law*
- Chapter 33: Insolvency law*
- Chapter 34: Insurance law*
- Chapter 35: Interpretation of contracts
- Chapter 36: Israel
- Chapter 37: Italy
- Chapter 38: Japanese law
- Chapter 39: Legal culture*
- Chapter 40: Legal families*
- Chapter 41: Legal history and comparative law
- Chapter 42: Legal reasoning*
- Chapter 43: Legal translation*
- Chapter 44: Legal transplants*
- Chapter 45: Lithuania
- Chapter 46: Methodology of comparative law*
- Chapter 47: Mistake*
- Chapter 48: Mixed jurisdictions*
- Chapter 49: Nationality law*
- Chapter 50: The Netherlands
- Chapter 51: Offer and acceptance inter absentes
- Chapter 52: Personal and real security*
- Chapter 53: Personality rights*
- Chapter 54: Poland
- Chapter 55: Privacy*
- Chapter 56: Private international law*
- Chapter 57: Product liability*
- Chapter 58: Property and real rights*
- Chapter 59: Public law*
- Chapter 60: Remedies for breach of contract*
- Chapter 61: Russian law
- Chapter 62: Scots law*
- Chapter 63: Social security*
- Chapter 64: South Africa
- Chapter 65: Spain
- Chapter 66: Statutory interpretation*
- Chapter 67: Supervening events and force majeure*
- Chapter 68: Sweden
- Chapter 69: Switzerland
- Chapter 70: Tax law*
- Chapter 71: Tort law in general*
- Chapter 72: Transfer of movable property*
- Chapter 73: Transnational law, evolving*
- Chapter 74: Trust law*
- Chapter 75: Turkey
- Chapter 76: Unjustified enrichment
- Index
Chapter 46: Methodology of comparative law*
A. Esin Örücü
Encyclopedia Chapter
- Published in print:
- 31 Oct 2012
- Category:
- Encyclopedia Chapter
- Pages:
- 560–576 (17 total)
Extract
The everyday process of thinking involves the making of a series of comparisons, that is, a process of contrasting and comparing, juxtaposing the unknown and the known, and our comprehension of the phenomena around us occurs through observing differences and similarities: ‘Just as the qualities of a yellow, its hue, brilliance and tone are perceived and sharpened most truly by placing it first on or beside another yellow and secondly by placing it in contrast to purple, so we explore the world around us’ (Örücü, 1986, p. 57). Notwithstanding, the fact that any one thing can be compared with any other thing has not, however, prevented wide discussion of the concepts ‘comparability’ and ‘methodology’ by comparative lawyers. Such discussion starts with the claim that ‘things to be compared must be comparable’, and revolves around the words ‘like’ and ‘similar’; ‘like must be compared with like’ and ‘similia similibus’ being well-established maxims of comparative law. What is ‘like’ in law? Even if what ‘like’ means can be determined, how much ‘like’ do things have to be to be ‘comparable’? What is meant by ‘only comparables can be meaningfully compared’ and by concepts such as ‘sufficiently comparable’, ‘reasonably comparable’ or ‘fruitfully comparable’?
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- Copyright
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Chapter 1: Accident compensation*
- Chapter 2: Administrative law*
- Chapter 3: Agency and representation*
- Chapter 4: The aims of comparative law*
- Chapter 5: American law (United States)*
- Chapter 6: Arbitration*
- Chapter 7: Assignment*
- Chapter 8: Australia
- Chapter 9: Belgium
- Chapter 10: Canada
- Chapter 11: China
- Chapter 12: Civil procedure*
- Chapter 13: Commercial regulation*
- Chapter 14: Common law*
- Chapter 15: Comparative law and economics*
- Chapter 16: Competition law*
- Chapter 17: Consideration*
- Chapter 18: Constitutional law*
- Chapter 19: Consumer protection*
- Chapter 20: Coordination of legal systems*
- Chapter 21: Corporate responsibility*
- Chapter 22: Criminal law and criminal procedure*
- Chapter 23: The Czech Republic
- Chapter 24: Damages (in tort)*
- Chapter 25: England and Wales
- Chapter 26: European Civil Code*
- Chapter 27: Family law*
- Chapter 28: Finland
- Chapter 29: France
- Chapter 30: German law
- Chapter 31: Greece
- Chapter 32: Human rights law*
- Chapter 33: Insolvency law*
- Chapter 34: Insurance law*
- Chapter 35: Interpretation of contracts
- Chapter 36: Israel
- Chapter 37: Italy
- Chapter 38: Japanese law
- Chapter 39: Legal culture*
- Chapter 40: Legal families*
- Chapter 41: Legal history and comparative law
- Chapter 42: Legal reasoning*
- Chapter 43: Legal translation*
- Chapter 44: Legal transplants*
- Chapter 45: Lithuania
- Chapter 46: Methodology of comparative law*
- Chapter 47: Mistake*
- Chapter 48: Mixed jurisdictions*
- Chapter 49: Nationality law*
- Chapter 50: The Netherlands
- Chapter 51: Offer and acceptance inter absentes
- Chapter 52: Personal and real security*
- Chapter 53: Personality rights*
- Chapter 54: Poland
- Chapter 55: Privacy*
- Chapter 56: Private international law*
- Chapter 57: Product liability*
- Chapter 58: Property and real rights*
- Chapter 59: Public law*
- Chapter 60: Remedies for breach of contract*
- Chapter 61: Russian law
- Chapter 62: Scots law*
- Chapter 63: Social security*
- Chapter 64: South Africa
- Chapter 65: Spain
- Chapter 66: Statutory interpretation*
- Chapter 67: Supervening events and force majeure*
- Chapter 68: Sweden
- Chapter 69: Switzerland
- Chapter 70: Tax law*
- Chapter 71: Tort law in general*
- Chapter 72: Transfer of movable property*
- Chapter 73: Transnational law, evolving*
- Chapter 74: Trust law*
- Chapter 75: Turkey
- Chapter 76: Unjustified enrichment
- Index