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Comparative Law ComparativeLawoffersathoroughgroundinginthesubjectforstudentsand scholars of comparative law alike, critically debating both traditional and modern approaches to the subject and using examples from a range of legal systemsgivesthereaderatrulyglobalperspective. Covering essential academic debates and comparative law methodology, its contextualised approach draws on examples from politics, economics and developmentstudiestoprovideanoriginalcontributiontotopicsofcompara- tivelaw. Newtothisedition: • fullyrevisedandupdatedtoreflectcontemporaryresearch; • moreexamplesfrommanyareasoflaw; • increased discussion of the relevance of regional, international, transna- tionalandgloballawsforcomparativelaw; • suitable for students taking courses in comparative law and related fields, thisbookoffersafreshcontextualisedandcosmopolitanperspectiveonthe subject. MathiasSiemsisaProfessorofCommercialLawatDurhamUniversity.Heis 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,FulbrightScholaratHarvardLawSchool,andJeanMonnetFellowatthe EuropeanUniversityInstituteinFlorence.Supportforthefirsteditionofthis bookwasprovidedbythePhilipLeverhulmePrize2010. TheLawinContextSeries Editors:WilliamTwining(UniversityCollegeLondon), MaksymilianDelMar(QueenMary,UniversityofLondon)and BronwenMorgan(UniversityofBristol). Since 1970 the Law in Context series has been at the forefront of the movement to broaden the study of law. It has been a vehicle for the publication of innovative scholarlybooksthattreatlawandlegalphenomenacriticallyintheirsocial,political andeconomiccontextsfromavarietyofperspectives.Theseriesparticularlyaimsto publishscholarlylegalwritingthatbringsfreshperspectivestobearonnewandexisting areas of law taught in universities. A contextual approach involves treating legal subjects broadly, using materials from other social sciences, and from any other disciplinethathelpstoexplaintheoperationinpracticeofthesubjectunderdiscussion. Itishopedthatthisorientationisatoncemorestimulatingandmorerealisticthanthe bareexpositionoflegalrules.Theseriesincludesoriginalbooksthathaveadifferent emphasisfromtraditionallegaltextbooks,whilemaintainingthesamehighstandards ofscholarship.Theyarewrittenprimarilyforundergraduateandgraduatestudentsof lawandofotherdisciplines,butwillalsoappealtoawiderreadership.Inthepast,most booksintheserieshavefocusedonEnglishlaw,butrecentpublicationsincludebooks onEuropeanlaw,globalisation,transnationallegalprocessesandcomparativelaw. BooksintheSeries Ali:ModernChallengestoIslamicLaw Anderson,Schum&Twining:AnalysisofEvidence Ashworth:SentencingandCriminalJustice Barton&Douglas:LawandParenthood Beecher-Monas: Evaluating Scientific Evidence: An Interdisciplinary Framework for IntellectualDueProcess Bell:FrenchLegalCultures Bercusson:EuropeanLabourLaw Birkinshaw:EuropeanPublicLaw Birkinshaw:FreedomofInformation:TheLaw,thePracticeandtheIdeal Brownsword&Goodwin:LawandtheTechnologiesoftheTwenty-FirstCentury Cane:Atiyah’sAccidents,CompensationandtheLaw Clarke&Kohler:PropertyLaw:CommentaryandMaterials Collins:TheLawofContract Collins,Ewing&McColgan:LabourLaw Cowan:HousingLawandPolicy Cranston:LegalFoundationsoftheWelfareState Darian-Smith:LawsandSocietiesinGlobalContexts:ContemporaryApproaches Dauvergne:MakingPeopleIllegal:WhatGlobalisationMeansforImmigrationandLaw Davies:PerspectivesonLabourLaw Dembour:WhoBelievesinHumanRights?:TheEuropeanConventioninQuestion deSousaSantos:TowardaNewLegalCommonSense Diduck:Law’sFamilies Fortin:Children’sRightsandtheDevelopingLaw Ghai&Woodham:PractisingSelf-government:A ComparativeStudyofAutonomous Regions Glover-Thomas:ReconstructingMentalHealthLawandPolicy Gobert&Punch:RethinkingCorporateCrime Goldman:GlobalisationandtheWesternLegalTradition:RecurringPatternsofLawand Authority Haack:EvidenceMatters:Science,Proof,andTruthintheLaw Harlow&Rawlings:LawandAdministration Harris:AnIntroductiontoLaw Harris,Campbell&Halson:RemediesinContractandTort Harvey:SeekingAsylumintheUK:ProblemsandProspects Hervey&McHale:EuropeanUnionHealthLaw Hervey&McHale:HealthLawandtheEuropeanUnion HolderandLee:EnvironmentalProtection,LawandPolicy JacksonandSummers:TheInternationalisationofCriminalEvidence Kostakopoulou:TheFutureGovernanceofCitizenship Lewis:ChoiceandtheLegalOrder:RisingabovePolitics Likosky:TransnationalLegalProcesses Likosky:Law,InfrastructureandHumanRights Maughan&Webb:LawyeringSkillsandtheLegalProcess McGlynn:FamiliesandtheEuropeanUnion:Law,PoliticsandPluralism Moffat:TrustsLaw:TextandMaterials Monti:ECCompetitionLaw Morgan:ContractLawMinimalism Morgan&Yeung:AnIntroductiontoLawandRegulation:TextandMaterials Nicola and Davies: EU Law Stories: Contextual and Critical Histories of European Jurisprudence Norrie:Crime,ReasonandHistory O’Dair:LegalEthics Oliver:CommonValuesandthePublic–PrivateDivide Oliver&Drewry:TheLawandParliament Picciotto:InternationalBusinessTaxation Probert:TheChangingLegalRegulationofCohabitation,1600-2010 Reed:InternetLaw:TextandMaterials Richardson:Law,ProcessandCustody Roberts&Palmer:DisputeProcesses:ADRandthePrimaryFormsofDecision-Making Rowbottom:DemocracyDistorted:Wealth,InfluenceandDemocraticPolitics Sauter:PublicServicesinEULaw Scott&Black:Cranston’sConsumersandtheLaw Seneviratne:Ombudsmen:PublicServicesandAdministrativeJustice Seppänen:IdeologicalConflictandtheRuleofLawinContemporaryChina Stapleton:ProductLiability Stewart:Gender,LawandJusticeinaGlobalMarket Tamanaha:LawasaMeanstoanEnd:ThreattotheRuleofLaw TurpinandTomkins:BritishGovernmentandtheConstitution:TextandMaterials Twining:GlobalisationandLegalTheory Twining:RethinkingEvidence Twining:GeneralJurisprudence:UnderstandingLawfromaGlobalPerspective Twining: Human Rights, Southern Voices: Francis Deng, Abdullahi An-Na’im, Yash GhaiandUpendraBaxi Twining&Miers:HowtoDoThingswithRules Ward:ACriticalIntroductiontoEuropeanLaw Ward:Law,Text,Terror Ward:ShakespeareandLegalImagination WellsandQuick:Lacey,WellsandQuick:ReconstructingCriminalLaw Zander:CasesandMaterialsontheEnglishLegalSystem Zander:TheLaw-MakingProcess InternationalJournalofLawinContext:AGlobalForumforInterdisciplinary LegalStudies TheInternationalJournalofLawinContextisthecompanionjournaltotheLawin Contextbookseriesandprovidesaforumforinterdisciplinarylegalstudiesandoffers intellectual spacefor ground-breakingcritical research. Itpublishes contextual work about law and its relationship with other disciplines including but not limited to science,literature,humanities,philosophy,sociology,psychology,ethics,historyand geography.Moreinformationaboutthejournalandhowtosubmitanarticlecanbe foundathttp://journals.cambridge.org/ijc Comparative Law SecondEdition MATHIAS SIEMS DurhamUniversity UniversityPrintingHouse,CambridgeCB28BS,UnitedKingdom OneLibertyPlaza,20thFloor,NewYork,NY10006,USA 477WilliamstownRoad,PortMelbourne,VIC3207,Australia 314–321,3rdFloor,Plot3,SplendorForum,JasolaDistrictCentre, NewDelhi–110025,India 79AnsonRoad,#06-04/06,Singapore079906 CambridgeUniversityPressispartoftheUniversityofCambridge. ItfurtherstheUniversity’smissionbydisseminatingknowledgeinthepursuitof education,learning,andresearchatthehighestinternationallevelsofexcellence. www.cambridge.org Informationonthistitle:www.cambridge.org/9781107182417 DOI:10.1017/9781316856505 ©MathiasSiems2018 Thispublicationisincopyright.Subjecttostatutoryexception andtotheprovisionsofrelevantcollectivelicensingagreements, noreproductionofanypartmaytakeplacewithoutthewritten permissionofCambridgeUniversityPress. Firstpublished2014 Secondeditonpublished2018 PrintedintheUnitedKingdombyClays,StIvesplc AcataloguerecordforthispublicationisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary. LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData Names:Siems,MathiasM.,1974–author. Title:Comparativelaw/MathiasSiems,UniversityofDurham. Description:Secondedition.|Cambridge,UnitedKingdom:CambridgeUniversityPress, [2018]|Series:Thelawincontextseries|Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. Identifiers:LCCN2017043869|ISBN9781107182417(hardback)|ISBN9781316633557 (paperback) Subjects:LCSH:Comparativelaw. Classification:LCCK583.S5872018|DDC340/.2–dc23 LCrecordavailableathttps://lccn.loc.gov/2017043869 ISBN978-1-107-18241-7Hardback ISBN978-1-316-63355-7Paperback CambridgeUniversityPresshasnoresponsibilityforthepersistenceoraccuracyof URLsforexternalorthird-partyInternetwebsitesreferredtointhispublication anddoesnotguaranteethatanycontentonsuchwebsitesis,orwillremain, accurateorappropriate. Contents ListofFigures pagexv ListofTables xvi PrefacetotheSecondEdition xvii PrefacetotheFirstEdition xix ListofAbbreviations xxi 1 Introduction 1 A WhyCompareLaws? 1 1 HowtoSlideintoComparative-LawThinking 1 2 PurposesofComparativeLaw 2 (a) KnowledgeandUnderstanding 2 (b) PracticalUseatDomesticLevel 4 (c) PracticalUseatInternationalLevel 5 B WhatBelongstoComparativeLaw? 6 1 StatusQuo:NoFixedCanon 6 2 SubstantiveScopeofThisBook 7 3 ThreeDimensionsof‘ComparativeLawinContext’ 10 4 Conclusion:StructureofThisBook 11 Part I Traditional Comparative Law 13 2 TheComparativeLegalMethod 15 A TypicalStructureofaComparativePaper 15 1 PreliminaryConsiderations 15 (a) PossibleResearchQuestions 15 (b) CountriestobeExamined 17 2 DescriptionofLaws 19 (a) FindingtheRightPerspective 19 (b) ToTranslateorNottoTranslate? 20 (c) PositiveLawandBeyond 22 viii Contents 3 ComparativeAnalysis 23 (a) IdentifyingVariation 23 (b) ExplainingVariation 24 4 CriticalPolicyEvaluation 27 (a) ShouldThisbePartofComparativeAnalysis? 27 (b) PossibleRecommendations 28 5 AnExamplefromComparativeTortLaw 29 B FunctionalismandUniversalisminParticular 31 1 Functionalism:Origins,UseandConsequences 31 (a) AttractivenessofFunctionalismElsewhere 31 (b) PopularityofFunctionalisminComparativeLaw 32 (c) LimitationsSetbyFunctionalism 33 2 ComparativeLaw’sInterestinFindingCommonalities 35 (a) ParallelsinPhilosophyandOtherFields 35 (b) UniversalismandComparativeLaw 36 3 ExampleoftheCommonCoreProject 38 C CriticalAnalysis 39 1 SimplisticApproach 40 2 FocusonWesternCountries 42 3 CriticsofFunctionalism 45 4 PolicyEvaluation 47 D Conclusion 48 3 CommonLawandCivilLaw 50 A TerminologyandOrigins 50 B JuxtaposingCivilandCommonLaw 52 1 LegalMethodsandSourcesofLaw 53 (a) RoleofStatuteLawanditsInterpretation 53 (b) RoleofCourts 55 (c) RoleofLegalScholarship 56 2 CourtsandCivilProcedure 58 (a) WhichTypesofCourtsExist? 58 (b) WhoExactlyis‘theCourt’? 59 (c) WhatistheMainFormofCivilProceedings? 61 (d) WhataretheRolesofJudge,PartiesandLawyers inCivilTrials? 62 (e) HowareJudgmentsWritten? 64 (f) WhatEffectsDoJudgmentsHave? 66 (g) Conclusion 68 3 ComparativeContractLaw 68 (a) Introduction 68 (b) ContractFormation 69 ix Contents (c) GoodFaithandPrecontractualDuties 70 (d) ContractualRemedies 72 (e) Conclusion 73 C CriticalAnalysis 74 1 DiversityinContinentalEurope 74 2 DifferencesBetweenEnglandandtheUnitedStates 75 3 WesternLawInsteadofCivilversusCommonLaw? 78 D Conclusion 81 4 MappingtheWorld’sLegalSystems 84 A SettingtheScene 84 1 BackgroundofClassifications 84 2 PurposesforLegalClassification 85 B ClassifyingCountries 87 1 BasesforClassification 87 2 ReviewofMainClassifications 88 3 MainCommonalitiesandDifferences 92 C CriticalAnalysis 94 1 Over-emphasisofDifferences 94 2 Over-emphasisofSimilarities 96 (a) AsianandAfricanLegalSystems 97 (b) LatinAmerica 99 3 DisregardofHybrids 101 (a) MixedLegalSystems 101 (b) HorizontallyDividedLegalSystems 104 (c) VerticallyDividedLegalSystems 106 (d) ParallelLegalSystems 108 D Conclusion 109 Part II Extending the Methods of Comparative Law 113 5 PostmodernComparativeLaw 115 A ChallengingtheOrthodoxy 115 B Deep-levelAnalysisofLaw 117 1 LawasRequiringImmersion 117 2 LawasLegalPluralism 119 3 GeneralLegalScholarshipasComparativeLaw 121 C Deep-levelComparisons 123 1 JurisprudentialandStructuralApproaches 123 (a) JurisprudentialApproaches 123

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