The method and culture of comparative law : essays in honour of Mark Van Hoecke / edited by Maurice Adams and Dirk Heirbaut.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Prolegomena to the method and culture of comparative law / Maurice Adams and Dirk Heirbaut -- What is legal epistemology? / Geoffrey Samuel -- Comparative law as method and the method of comparative law / Jaap Hage -- Research designs of comparative law : methodology or heuristics? / Jaakko Husa -- Law as translation / Francois Ost -- Controlled comparison and language of description / Maurice Adams -- Three functions of function in comparative legal studies / Catherine Valcke and Mathew Grellette -- Comparative law and legal history : a few words about comparative legal history / Martin Lohnig -- Comparative contexts in legal history : are we all comparatists now? / Heikki Pihlajamaki -- The curious case of overfitting legal transplants / Mathias M Siems --'Ius commune', comparative law and public governance / Alain Wijffels -- Things being various : normativity, legality, state legality / Sean Patrick Donlan -- Against method? / H. Patrick Glenn -- Comparatively speaking :'law in its regulatory environment' / Roger Brownsword -- The importance of institutions / John Bell -- Live and let die : an essay concerning legal-cultural understanding / Jrn yrehagen Sunde -- Policy and politics in contract law reform in Japan / Souichirou Kozuka and Luke Nottage -- The Eurocrises and what socio-legal studies could do about them, or: comparing European pluralisms from legal cultural approaches / Joxerramon Bengoetxea -- Comparing the legitimacy of constitutional court decision-making : deliberation as method / Toon Moonen -- Making the case for European comparative legal studies in public law / Susan Millns -- Comparative law and EU legislation : inspiration, evaluation or justification? / Rob van Gestel and Hans-W Micklitz.