The Harmonisation of European Private Law

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Offers a bridge between comparative law and legal theory, centers upon debates about European legal integration, and, more generally, about the methodology of comparative law. What should be compared Statutory rules, case law, legal history, law's political, sociological and economical environment, the ideological background of the lawyers, legal techniques, legal traditions, legal cultures, etc. This question is at the core of many current debates and is discussed in many of the papers contained in this volume. The contributors all attempt to locate law in its context, and adopt a more theoretical and interdisciplinary approach to making comparisons.

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Riche denseignements sur de nombreux points particuliers, le principal mrite de louvrage est damener le lecteur au-del des aspects politiques de lintgrations europene vers une rflexion gnrale sur la definition dun systme juridique et les presupposes conomiques, culturels ou historiques qui le sous-tendent. -- Olivera Boskovic * Revue Internationale de droit Compare *

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Mark Van Hoecke is Professor of Law and Jurisprudence at the Katholieke Universiteit Brussel and co-director of the European Academy of Legal Theory in Brussels. Franois Ost is Professor of Law at the Facults Universitaires Saint-Louis. He is Co-director of the European Academy of Legal Theory based at the KUB and FUSL in Brussels.