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The Grand Strategy of Comparative Law Themes, Methods, Developments

Edited By Luca Siliquini-Cinelli, Davide Gianti, Mauro Balestrieri Copyright 2024
344 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

344 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

344 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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This book features original essays by leading academics and emerging researchers written in honour of a legal comparatist who, over the course of four decades, has played a major role in comparative law’s development: Pier Giuseppe Monateri. Rather than being just a celebrative work without analytical appeal, this book makes a significant contribution to the comparative legal literature by... Read more

Foreword: A Note in Honour of Pier Giuseppe Monateri 

Guido Calabresi 

Introduction: Essays in Honour of Pier Giuseppe Monateri 

Luca Siliquini-Cinelli 

Part I – Comparative Law and Its Methods

1. Has Comparative Law Progressed? 

Geoffrey Samuel 

2. Comparative Law and Its Methods: Pier Giuseppe Monateri’s Dominus Mundi between Neoliberal Globalism and Authoritarian Liberalism 

Luca Siliquini-Cinelli 

3. Comparative Law Method and the Legal Formants as Catalysts of Normative Realities 

Elena Ioriatti 

4. The Comparatist and Plato’s Cave 

Jaakko Husa 

5. Why and How Courts Use Comparative Law 

Mads Andenas, Duncan Fairgrieve, and Francesco Quarta 

6. The Enigma of Law: Looking at Comparative Law through the Lenses of Legal Anthropology 

Mauro Balestrieri 

Part II - Comparative Private Law 

7. Damages for Breach of Contract: The Legacy of Conceptualism 

James Gordley 

8. Deconstructing NFTs as Decentralised Digital Property 

Massimiliano Granieri and Roberto Pardolesi 

9. From the Mud Contract to the Crystal Contract: The Role of Good Faith in the Latin American Law of Contract 

Leysser León Hilario 

10. Paradigms and Operational Rules in Contract Law: ‘Theological Consensualism’ and the Theory of a ‘Juridical Theology’ Applied to the Consent Principle 

Davide Gianti 

11. Personal Injury in Peru: The Influence of Pier Giuseppe Monateri’s Contribution 

Carlos Antonio Agurto Gonzáles and Juan Jesús Pablo Abanto 

Part III - Law and Literature 

12. Ars Justitiae: Vives and Vico on Law and Humanist Education

Jeanne Gaakeer 

13. Beckett’s Weather Report 

Pierre Legrand 

14. From Shakespeare’s Othello to Alex Garland’s Ex Machina: The Technique of Suspicion 

Daniela Carpi 

15. ‘Set’ 

Gary Watt 

Part IV - The Politics and Ontology of Law 

16. If Black Gaius Were a Woman: Ontology, Desire and Denial in Law 

Kimberley Brayson 

17. Alterity on the Terms of the Law: For an Ontology of the In-Between 

Horatia Muir Watt 

18. A Purely Western Tradition. The 100th Anniversary of the Orientalisation Debate 

Tomasz Giaro 

19. Approximation and Harmonisation of Private Law in Europe—Reflections from the Viewpoint of Comparative Law 

Gábor Hamza 

Part V - Comparative Law and Economics 

20. Liability or No Liability?  Promoting Safety by Shifting Accident Losses onto Third Parties 

Francesco Parisi 

21. The Sustainability of Civil Liability Rules 

Giulio Ponzanelli 

Afterword: A Note of Thanks 

Pier Giuseppe Monateri

Biography

Luca Siliquini-Cinelli is Reader in Law at Cardiff University, UK.

Davide Gianti is Associate Professor of Law at the University of Turin, Italy.

Mauro Balestrieri is Associate Professor of Law at the University of Turin, Italy.

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