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Amsterdam University Press
Our society has never been so internationally connected. Companies operate worldwide, retail shelves are filled with products from far and wide, people travel like never before and maintain contacts from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe. Distant countries have never been so close. Anyone who is practising law today cannot escape this and will increasingly be confronted with cross-border legal issues.... Read more
PREFACE, PART I – LAW COMPARISON CHAPTER 1. What is law comparison? CHAPTER 2. Why law comparison? CHAPTER 3. How to compare law CHAPTER 4. How to group countries COMPARING LAW PART II – EXPLORING SOME KEY JURISDICTIONS GENERAL INTRODUCTION CHAPTER 1. Belgium CHAPTER 2. The Netherlands CHAPTER 3. France CHAPTER 4. Germany CHAPTER 5. United Kingdom CHAPTER 6. United States of America CHAPTER 7. Russia CHAPTER 8. China CHAPTER 9. Japan COMPARING LAW CHAPTER 10. CHAPTER 11. India CHAPTER 12. Israel CHAPTER 13. Islamic law CHAPTER 14. African law PART III – SELECTED TOPICS GENERAL INTRODUCTION CHAPTER 1. Forms of state and authority CHAPTER 2. Persons and family CHAPTER 3. Obligations and liability BIBLIOGRAPHY.
Biography
Bert Demarsin (1980) is professor at the University of Leuven. He teaches Comparative Law as well as Introduction to Law and Legal Methodology in the bachelor’s programme. His main research area is art and cultural heritage law, which he examines from a comparative law perspective.
Danny Pieters (1956) is professor emeritus at the University of Leuven. He taught both comparative law and social security law. He has published numerous articles and books in both disciplines. He also fulfilled political mandates in the past, including president of the Belgian Senate. Today, he is a judge at the Belgian Constitutional Court and a member of Academia Europeae.
