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Comparative Law: A Very Short Introduction aims to offer a concise introduction to comparative law--its objectives, methods, concepts, and uses. After an overview of the fundamental definitions, key concepts, and basic lexicon of the discipline, the book proposes an analysis of the most successful techniques adopted in legal comparison for mapping the world's legal systems and for explaining legal change and diffusion of law, also giving a concise description of the legal traditions of the world. It also offers an account of the competing approaches adopted over time in comparative endeavors, from functionalism to culturalism and postmodernism, and highlights the different emphasis placed by each of these approaches on commonalities, faith in universal law and convergence, or on divergence and irreducible differences. Finally, the book provides listeners with an understanding of the practical use of comparative law, describing how legal comparison is employed both in lawmaking and in adjudication, supplementing legal reasoning and interpretation.

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"""This slim volume by two Italian professors of comparative law is to be commended for what it distils into 130 very readable pages. The concise, clear prose provides room for practical examples."" -- "" Law Society Gazette"""

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Sabrina Ragone is a professor of comparative law in the Department of Political and Social Sciences of the University of Bologna, where she holds the post of head of international relations. She is also senior research affiliate of the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, where she pursued her research between 2015 and 2017. Previously, she was Garcia Pelayo Fellow at the Centro de Estudios Politicos y Constitucionales, Madrid, and researcher at the Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona. She has held visiting positions in the USA (Boston College, Michigan Law School, Texas A&M), Argentina, Colombia, Chile, Mexico, Germany, and France. She specializes in comparative methodology, constitutional adjudication, European, and Latin American constitutionalism. Guido Smorto is a professor of comparative private law at University of Palermo, where he holds the EU Jean Monnet Chair in Comparative and European Digital Law. He has held research and visiting professor positions in several academic institutions in Europe, as well as in the US, Japan, and Latin America, and has written and edited articles and books in Italian, English, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, French, Portuguese, and Catalan. He gives talks and lectures in Italy and abroad. Smorto specializes in private comparative law. His latest scholarly works focus mainly on comparative and European digital law. He is also Vice President of Societa Italiana per la Ricerca nel Diritto Comparato (SIRD). Linda Jones is an award-winning narrator and NYC actor with a penchant for dark edges and curious truths. Weaned on du Maurier and Hitchcock, Kafka and Poe-tales of mystery, adventure, and intrigue spawned a decades-long career with writers in new work, development, and narration. She has narrated for Penguin Random House, Recorded Books, Audible Studios, and Dreamscape, as well as a variety of independent authors and publishers. She has a BFA from Ithaca College. She lives in Brooklyn with writer John C. Foster and their dog, Coraline, in an apartment filled-to-bursting, floor-to-ceiling, corner-to-absolute-corner with books.

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