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UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO FACULTY LAW of Comparative Law Theory Course Materials Professor Valcke Faculty of Law, University of Toronto Fall 2013 r i K 558 735 2013a Jl Comparative Law Theory Course Materials Professor Valcke Faculty of Law, University of Toronto Fall 2013 Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2018 with funding from University of Toronto https://archive.org/details/comparativelawth00valc_2 Comparative Law Theory Professor Valcke Fall 2013 I. Different Kinds of Comparative Law Scholarship Stefan Vogenauer, “Sources of Law and Legal Method in Comparative Law” in Mathias Reimann and Reinhard Zimmermann, The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Law 869 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008) at 875-876.1 Colleen M. Flood, International Health Care Reform (London: Routledge, 2000) at 9, 11, 103- 109.3 George P. Fletcher, The Grammar of Criminal Law (New York: Oxford University Press, 2007) at 19-20, 68, 221-224, 340-342.7 Rosemary J. Coombe, “The Cultural Life of Things: Anthropological Approaches to Law and Society in Conditions of Globalization” 10 Am. J. lnt’l L. & Pol’y 791 (1995) at 796-797, 812- 818. 14 James Gordley, ed., The Enforceability of Promises in European Contract Law (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001) at 267-278.23 Tom Ginsburg, “Studying Japanese Law Because It’s There” 58 Am. J. Comp. L. 15 (2010) at 15-16, 23-5. 30 Questions 1.35 II. The “Malaise” of Comparative Law William Ewald, “Comparative Jurisprudence (I): What Was It Like to Try a Rat?” (1994-95) 143 U. Pa. L. Rev. at 1961-1965.36 Note.41 Alan Watson, Legal Transplants: An Approach to Comparative Law, 2nd ed. (Edinburgh: Scottish Academic Press, 1974) at 10-3.42 Gunter Frankenberg, “Critical Comparisons: Re-thinking Comparative Law” 26 Harv. IntT. L. J. 411 (1985) at 416-426.44 Gary King et al, Designing Social Inquiry—Scientific Inference in Qualitative Research (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994) at 3-12.55 Questions II 65 III. Different Models for Comparative Law as a self-standing academic discipline A. Legal Transplants and Legal Formants Alan Watson, Legal Transplants: An Approach to Comparative Law, 2nd ed. (Edinburgh: Scottish Academic Press, 1974) at 1-9, 21-24, 27-30, 65-70.66 P. Legrand, “The Impossibility of ‘Legal Transplants’” 4 Maastricht Journal of European and Comparative Law 111 (1997)...80 Rodolfo Sacco, “Legal Formants: A Dynamic Approach to Comparative Law (Installment I of II)” 39 Am. J. Comp. L, 1 (1991) at 21-26.88 Rodolfo Sacco, “Legal Formants: A Dynamic Approach to Comparative Law (Installment II of II)” 39 Am. J. L. 343 (1991) at 384-388.95 Questions III A.100 B. Functionalism Konrad Zweigert and Heinz Kotz, An Introduction to Comparative Law, 3rd ed., vol. 1 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998) at 28-45.101 Geoffrey Samuel, “Epistemology and Comparative Law: Contributions from the Sciences and Social Sciences” in Mark van Hoecke, ed., Epistemology and Methodology of Comparative Law (Portland: Hart Publishing, 2004) at 38-43.110 Jaako Husa, “Farewell to Functionalism of Methodological Tolerance?” 67 RabelsZ 419 (2003) at 421-22, 423-434.113 Questions IIIB.•..121 C. Comparative Jurisprudence and Legal Families Konrad Zweigert and Heinz Kotz, An Introduction to Comparative Law, 3rd ed., vol. 1 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998) at 63-67.122 William Ewald, “Comparative Jurisprudence (I): What Was It Like to Try a Rat?” (1994-95) 143 U. Pa. L. Rev. at 1889-1898, 1943-1961, 2104-2149.125 Questions IIIC 179 IV. Theoretical Dimensions of Comparative Law as a self-standing academic discipline A. The Internal Standpoint Collingwood, in Gardiner, at 24-27.180 Kerchove and Ost, Legal System between Order and Disorder (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994) at 1-2, 5-28, 102-112, 116-120, 122-146, 170-176.182 William Ewald, “The Jurisprudential Approach to Comparative Law: A Field Guide to ‘Rats’” (1998) 46:4 Am. J. Comp. L. at 701-704.221 Pierre Legrand, “European Legal Systems Are Not Converging” (1996) 45:1 Int’l. & Comp. L. Q. at 52-81.225 Ronald Dworkin, Law’s Empire (Harvard University Press, 1986) at 12-15, 62-64.241 Questions IVA.245 B. Epistemological Issues Rodolfo Sacco, “Legal Formants: A Dynamic Approach to Comparative Law (Installment I of II)” 39 Am. J. Comp. L. 1 (1991) at 10-11.246 James Q. Whitman, “The neo-Romantic turn” in Comparative LegalSTudies: Traditions and Transitions (Cambridge: Cambridge Books Online, 2009) at 312-344.248 Mitchel de S.-O.-l’E. Lasser, “The Question of Understanding” in Pierre Legrand and Roderick Miunday, eds., Comparative Legal Studies: Traditions and Transitions (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003) at 197-239.281 Jan M. Smits, “Legal Cultures Within the European Union: Pluralism” in Private Law and Cultures ofEruopre at 144-145.295 Pierre Legrand, “Comparative Legal Studies and Commitment to Theory” 58 Mod. L. Rev. 262 (1995) at 266-267..'.297 Pierre Legrand, “Comparing in Circles”, Preface to Pip Nicholson and Sarah Biddulph, Examining Practice, Interrogating Theory: Comparative Legal Studies in Asia (Leiden: Brill) (excerpts).299 Ronald Dworkin, Law’s Empire (Harvard University Press, 1986), note 15 at 422-423.303 Questions IVB 304 C. Law as Diverse yet Unified—Legal Diversity (Many “Legal Systems”) Catherine Valcke, “Comparative Law as Comparative Jurisprudence—The Comparability of Legal Systems” (2004) 52 Am. J. Comp. L. at 720-721.305 William Ewald, “Comparative Jurisprudence (I): What Was It Like to Try a Rat?” (1994-95) 143 U. Pa. L. Rev. at 1957-1958. 307 James Gordley, “The Universalist Heritage” in Pierre Legrand and Roderick Munday, eds., Comparative Legal Studies: Traditions and Transitions (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003) at 31-45.309 Questions IVC.317 D. Law as Diverse yet Unified—Legal Unity (Common Features of Legal Systems) Lon L. Fuller, The Morality of Law (New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 1969) at 3-4, 33-41, 95-96....318 Ernest J. Weinrib, “Corrective Justice in a Nutshell” (2002) 52:4 U Toronto L. J. at 349-352, 355- 356.326 Charles Larmore, “Public Reason” in Samuel Freeman, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Rawls (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003) at 368-69, 370-71.332 Questions IX.334 E. Comparative Methodology Ronald Dworkin, Law’s Empire (Harvard University Press, 1986) at 65-68.335 Stefan Vogenauer, “Sources of Law and Legal Method in Comparative Law” in Mathias Reimann and Reinhard Zimmermann, eds., The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Law 869 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008) at 879-885, 886-889.338 John C. Reitz, “How to Do Comparative Law” 46 Am. J. Comp. L. 617 (1998) at 617-636.349 Catherine Valcke, “Reflections on Comparative Law Methodology” in Maurice Adams and Jacco Bomhoff, eds., Doing Comparative Law (forthcoming Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011)..369 Questions X 396 V. Conclusion Mathias M. Siems, “The End of Comparative Law” 2 J. of Comp. L. 133 (2007) at 133-150.397 Questions V.415