The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Law

The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Law, 2nd Edition, provides a critical survey of the comparative legal discipline at the beginning of the twenty-first century. It reviews a field of growing importance for academic research and practical legal application.

The volume explores how comparative law developed and operates in traditional model jurisdictions such as France, Germany, and the United States, as well as in Eastern Europe, East Asia, and Latin America. It also outlines key methodological goals and connects comparative studies to fields such as linguistics, economics, and legal history.

Across forty-eight chapters written by international specialists, each contribution pairs analysis of its topic with a short bibliography of definitive works.