Engaging with Foreign Law

This book presents a developed theory of how national lawyers can approach, understand, and make use of foreign law. Its theme is pursued through a set of detailed essays which look at the courts as well as business practice and, with the help of statistics, demonstrate what type of academic work has any impact on the 'real' world. Engaging with Foreign Law thus aims to carve out a new niche for comparative law in this era of globalisation, and may also be the only book which deals in some depth with both private and public law in countries such as England, Germany, France, South Africa, and the United States.

Auteur

Sir Basil Markesinis KC is a Fellow of the British Academy, a Foreign Fellow of the Accademia dei Lincei of Rome, the Royal Belgian Academy of Arts and Sciences in Brussels, the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in Amsterdam, and a Correspondng Fellow of the Academy of Athens and the Academie des Sciences Morales et Politques in France. He is a Bencher of Gray's Inn.

Photo by Wyatt McSpadden.

Contenu

1. Reflections on the State of Comparative Law I: The Twilight of the Heroes
   
   2. Reflections on the State of Comparative Law II: The Era of Societal Needs
   3. Spreading the Gospel (and the Name of the Evangelist)
   4. South Africa
   5. The Situation in Germany
   6. The Reluctance to Borrow Ideas from Abroad: Two Strange Bedfellows- The United States and France
   7. The Focused Approach in Public Law: A Look at English and French Law
   8. Another Lesson on Packaging: The Grey Zone where Tort Law Overlaps with Administrative Law
   9. Foreign Law Inspiring National Law: Lessons from Greatorex v Greatorex
   10. Comparative Law in Commercial Practice
   11. Reflecting on the Future: The Subject and its Teachers