Introduction&Pier Giuseppe Monateri 1
PART Ⅰ WHY ‘METHODS’? AN INTELLECTUAL PROJECT ON THE MULTILAYER STRUCTURE OF LEGAL COMPARATIVISM 7
1 Methods in comparative law: an intellectual overview&Pier Giuseppe Monateri 7
2 Intent on making mischief: seven ways of using comparative law&Mads Andenas and Duncan Fairgrieve 25
3 Method?&Simone Glanert 61
4 Comparison as deep appreciation&Gary W 82
PART Ⅱ REVISITING CLASSICAL THEORIES AND PERSPECTIVES ON COMPARATIVE LEGAL METHODOLOGIES:A CRITICAL GLANCE 107
5 The functional method&James Gordley 107
6 How to do projects with comparative law: notes of an expedition to the common core&Gunter Frankenberg 120
7 Descriptive and purposive categories of comparative law&Sebastian McEvoy 144
PART Ⅲ LEGAL TRANSPLANTS AND TRANSNATIONAL CODES:QUESTIONING ON CULTURAL BIASES AND SCIENTIFIC STATEMENTS 165
8 All that heaven allows: are transnational codes a ‘scientific truth’ or are they just a form of elegant ‘pastiche’?&Geoffrey Samuel 165
9 Contextualizing legal transplant: China and Hong Kong&Chen Lei 192
PART Ⅳ SPACE, BOUNDARIES AND JURISDICTIONS: THE CHOREOGRAPHIC SPECTRALITY OF LAW 213
10 Interstitium and non-law&Peter Goodrich 213
11 The iconicity of space: comparative law and the geopolitics of jurisdictions&Cristina Costantini 230
PART Ⅴ LEGAL NARRATIVES, JUDICIAL INTERPRETATIONS AND SUBVERSIVE PARADIGMS 243
12 The resilience of history: comparative legal theory and the end of the American century&Anthony Louis Marasco 243
13 Iudex translator: the reign of finitude&Jeanne Gaakeer 252
14 Further terrains for subversive comparison: the field of global governance and the public/private divide&Horatia Muir W 270
PART Ⅵ POLITICAL ECONOMIES AND THE INNER POLICIES OF LAW: TOWARDS A‘COMPARATIVE LAW AND ECONOMICS’ ASSESSMENT 291
15 Towards the economics of comparative law: the Doing Business debate&Antonio Nicita and Simona Benedettini 291
16 Quantitative methods in comparative law&Francesco Parisi and Barbara Luppi 306
Index 317