Comparative law in the courtroom and classroom : The story of the last thirty-five years
- Oxford Hart Publishing Ltd. 2003
- 273p xxvii
Contents: Abbreviations xxi; Table of Cases xxvii; 1. Reflections on the State of Comparative Law I: The Twilight of the Heroes 1; 1. Of Ghettoes and Smart Neighbourhoods 1; 2. Decline 4; 2. Reflections on the State of Comparative Law II: The Death of Heroes and the Era of Societal Needs 35; 1. The Emergence of a Strategy 35; 2. The Rabel Method Over Time 38; 3. Functional Specificity: More of the Same Medicine 45; 4. Old (Bad) Habits and New (Silly) Threats 49; 5. From Heroes to Movements of Contemporary Globalisation 61; 3. Spreading the Gospel (and the Name of the Evangelist) 75; 1. Aims to be Pursued 75; 2. Warnings and Caveats 80; 3. Some Raw Data 86; 4. Drawing the First Lessons 90; 5. The Situation in Germany 107; 6. The Case of South Africa 120; 7. A Postscript 125; 4. Foreign Law Inspiring National Law: Lessons from Greatorex v Greatorex 157; 1. The Theory Put into Practice 157; 2. The German Model 161; 3. The Application of the German Idea to Greatorex 163; 4. Unresolved Questions 164; 5. The American Dimension 167; 6. Some Tentative Conclusions 171; 5. The Focused Approach in Public Law 183; 1. Introduction 183; 2. A Study in Parallel 184; 3. The Reasoning of the Courts 187; 4. In Search of a Rapprochement 188; 5. Wider Conclusions 198; 6. Reflecting on the Future: An Epilogue 209; Appendix 1: Correspondence Between Lord Atkin and Professor H C Gutteridge 225; Appendix 2: The German Approach 231; Appendix 3: Databases Searched 261; Index 267.