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Prologue: The `Malaise' of Comparative Law |
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Detailed Description of Chapter Contents |
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I `Law as Collective Commitment' |
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34 | (4) |
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II An Idealist/Materialist Conception |
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i Natural Law as Idealist Ideal-Type |
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ii Positivism as Materialist Ideal-Type |
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iii Law as Collective Commitment as Natural Law/Positivism Hybrid |
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52 | (7) |
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I Comparison Requires Distinctness and Connectedness |
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iii From Comparability to Meaningful Comparison |
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iv Meaningful Comparison in Law |
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II Legal Systems Under Natural Law |
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III Legal Systems Under Positivism |
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IV Legal Systems Under Law as Collective Commitment |
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3 Engaging with Legal Systems: Epistemology |
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I Internal and External Perspectives in the Social Sciences |
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II Internal and External Perspectives in Law |
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i An External Perspective Under the Natural Law and Positivist Ideal-Types |
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ii An Internal Perspective Under Law as Collective Commitment |
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iv The Heterogeneity Objection |
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v The Subjectivity Objection |
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III Internal and External Perspectives in Comparative Law |
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i The Outsider's Internal Perspective |
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ii The Outsider's Home Bias |
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iii The Outsider's Internal/External Process |
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iv The Outsider's Comparative Contribution |
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v The Outsider's Many Legal Games |
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4 Delineating Legal Systems: Geography |
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I Internal and External Legal System Delineation |
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II Legal Systems as Bee Swarms |
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i A Well-Defined (Material) Centre of Gravity |
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ii Fluid (Intellectual) Edges |
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III Bee Swarms in Global Law |
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i Monism Versus Pluralism |
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ii `Strong' Versus `Weak' Legal Pluralism |
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iii `Subnational' Versus `Supranational' Weak Legal Pluralism |
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5 Comparing Legal Systems: Methodology |
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I Gathering the Relevant Legal Data |
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i Choosing a Topic and Target Legal Systems |
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ii Identifying Potentially Relevant Legal Data: Functionalism |
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iii Sorting Relevant Legal Data: Expressivism |
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II Reconstructing the Data into Systems |
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III Comparing the Systems |
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Epilogue: The Academic Discipline of Comparative Law |
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Index |
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