The Method and Culture of Comparative Law : Essays in Honour of Mark Van Hoecke

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1. Prolegomena to the Method and Culture of Comparative Law Maurice Adams and Dirk Heirbaut 2. What is Legal Epistemology? Geoffrey Samuel 3. Comparative Law as Method and the Method of Comparative Law Jaap Hage 4. Research Designs of Comparative Law-Methodology or Heuristics? Jaakko Husa 5. Law as Translation Francois Ost 6. Controlled Comparison and Language of Description Maurice Adams 7. Three Functions of Function in Comparative Legal Studies Catherine Valcke and Mathew Grellette 8. Comparative Law and Legal History: A Few Words about Comparative Legal History Martin Lohnig 9. Comparative Contexts in Legal History: Are We All Comparatists Now? Heikki Pihlajamaki 10. The Curious Case of Overfi tting Legal Transplants Mathias M Siems 11. 'Ius commune', Comparative Law and Public Governance Alain Wijffels viii 12. Things Being Various: Normativity, Legality, State Legality Sean Patrick Donlan 13. Against Method? H Patrick Glenn 14. Comparatively Speaking: 'Law in its Regulatory Environment' Roger Brownsword 15. The Importance of Institutions John Bell 16. Live and Let Die: An Essay Concerning Legal-Cultural Understanding Jorn Oyrehagen Sunde 17. Policy and Politics in Contract Law Reform in Japan Souichirou Kozuka and Luke Nottage 18. The Eurocrises and What Socio-legal Studies Could Do about Them, or: Comparing European Pluralisms from Legal Cultural Approaches Joxerramon Bengoetxea 19. Comparing the Legitimacy of Constitutional Court Decision- Making: Deliberation as Method Toon Moonen 20. Making the Case for European Comparative Legal Studies in Public Law Susan Millns 21. Comparative Law and EU Legislation: Inspiration, Evaluation or Justifi cation? Rob van Gestel and Hans-W Micklitz