Globalisation and Europeanisation do not only produce coherence and uniformity but are flanked by differentiation...

The use of the functional method when comparing legal systems remains debated, even to such...

Our understanding of the discipline of law, or more broadly the sphere of law, has...

The 2009 edition of Schlesinger’s Comparative Law may be regarded as a kind of a...

This article seeks to make sense of why the ECtHR’s interpretation techniques are problematic from...

Argument in this paper draws inspiration from the pedagogical theory of so‐called constructivism. Following this...

Article examines the possibility of modern constitutional ius commune. The methodological idea is to use...

This article studies the similarities and differences between criminal fraud, i.e. deception punishable under criminal...

This article highlights the methodological value of legal families in micro-comparative law from Nordic point...

In this paper methodology of comparative law is analysed by using the metaphoric device of...

Heikki Mattila’s book ‘Comparative Legal Linguistics’ (2006) deals with legal language. Clearly, language is distinctly...

This review-article deals with Werner Menski’s interesting argument (Comparative Law in a Global Context: The...

In this review essay the problem of an exclusive legal mind is tackled with the...

This article criticizes overtly normative, rigid and paradoxical positions found within the methodological debate of...

Classifying and grouping legal systems is said to be an elemental part of macro-comparative law....

The academic writing on comparative law can deal with many kinds of questions. Here the...

Constitutionalism in Europe has been for a long time in a constant state of flux....

Allegedly, there is a conflict between theoretical and practical comparative law. This conflict can be...

Comparative law has sought for decades to reach a macro-level grasp of the global panorama...