This fully revised and updated second edition of The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Law provides a wide-ranging and diverse critical survey of comparative law at the beginning of the twenty-first century. It summarizes and evaluates a discipline that is time-honoured but not easily understood in all its dimensions. In the current era of globalization, this discipline is more relevant than ever, both on the academic and on the practical level.

The Handbook is divided into three main sections. Section I surveys how comparative law has developed and where it stands today in various parts of the world. This includes not only traditional model jurisdictions, such as France, Germany, and the United States, but also other regions like Eastern Europe, East Asia, and Latin America. Section II then discusses the major approaches to comparative law - its methods, goals, and its relationship with other fields, such as legal history, economics, and linguistics. Finally, section III deals with the status of comparative studies in over a dozen subject matter areas, including the major categories of private, economic, public, and criminal law.

The Handbook contains forty-eight chapters written by experts from around the world. The aim of each chapter is to provide an accessible, original, and critical account of the current state of comparative law in its respective area which will help to shape the agenda in the years to come. Each chapter also includes a short bibliography referencing the definitive works in the field.

Mathias Reimann, Hessel E. Yntema Professor of Law, The University of Michigan,Reinhard Zimmermann, Hamburg, Director of the Max Planck Institute for Foreign Private and Private International Law

Mathias Reimann is Hessel E. Yntema Professor of Law at The University of Michigan.

Reinhard Zimmermann is Director of the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, Hamburg, and an Affiliate Professor at Bucerius Law School.

PART I THE DEVELOPMENT OF COMPARATIVE LAW IN THE WORLD
1. Comparative Law before the Code Napoleon, Charles Donahue
2. Development of Comparative Law in France, Benedicte Fauvarque-Cosson
3. Development of Comparative Law in Germany, Switzerland, and Austria, Ingeborg Schwenzer
4. Development of Comparative Law in Italy, Elisabetta Grande
5. Development of Comparative Law in Great Britain, John W. Cairns
6. Development of Comparative Law in the United States, David S. Clark
7. Development of Comparative Law in Central and Eastern Europe, Zdenek Kuhn
8. Development of Comparative Law in Japan, Luke Nottage
9. Development of Comparative Law in China, Taisu Zhang
10. Development of Comparative Law in Latin America, Jan Kleinheisterkamp
PART II APPROACHES TO COMPARATIVE LAW
11. Comparative Law and Comparative Knowledge, Nils Jansen
12. Comparative Law and Legal Education, Nora Demleitner
13. The Functional Method of Comparative Law, Ralf Michaels
14. Comparative Law: Study of Similarities or Differences?, Gerhard Dannemann
15. Comparative Legal Families and Comparative Legal Traditions, H. Patrick Glenn
16. Comparative Law, Legal Transplants, and Receptions, Michele Graziadei
17. Comparative Law and the Study of Mixed Legal Systems, Jacques du Plessis
18. Comparative Law and its Influence on National Legal Systems, Jan M. Smit
19. Comparative Law and European Union Law, Francis Jacobs
20. Comparative Law and the Europeanization of Private Law, Reinhard Zimmerman
21. Globalization and Comparative Law, Horatia Muir Watt
22. Comparative Law and the Islamic (Middle Eastern) Legal Culture, Chibli Mallat
23. Comparative Law and African Customary Law, T. W. Bennett
24. Comparative Law and Language, Vivian Grosswald Curran
25. Comparative Law and Legal Culture, Roger Cotterrell
26. Comparative Law and Religion, James Whitman
27. Comparative Law and Legal History, James Gordley
28. Comparative Law and Socio-legal Studies, Annelise Riles
29. Comparative Law and Critical Legal Studies, Ugo Mattei
30. Comparative Law and Economic Analysis of Law, Florian Faust
31. New Directions in Comparative Law, Mathias Siems
PART III SUBJECT AREAS
32. Sources of Law and Legal Method in Comparative Law, Stefan Vogenauer
33. Comparative Contract Law, Hein Koetz
34. Comparative Sales Law, Peter Huber
35. Unjustified Enrichment in Comparative Perspective, Daniel Visser
36. Comparative Tort Law, Gerhard Wagner
37. Comparative Property Law, Sjef van Erp
38. Comparative Succession Law, Marius J. de Waal
39. Comparative Family Law, Jens M. Scherpe
40. Comparative Labour Law, Matthew W. Finkin
41. Comparative Company Law, Klaus J. Hopt
42. Comparative Competition Law, David J. Gerber
43. Comparative Constitutional Law, Mark Tushnet
44. Comparative Human Rights Law, Samantha Besson
45. Comparative Administrative Law, John S. Bell
46. Comparative Criminal Law, Markus D. Dubber
47. Comparative Civil Procedure, Joachim Zekoll
48. Comparative Law and Private International Law, Mathias Reimann