Engaging with Foreign Law - by Basil S Markesinis & Jörg Fedtke (Paperback)

About the Book

This book presents a developed theory of how national lawyers can approach, understand, and make use of foreign law.

Book Synopsis

This book presents a developed theory of how national lawyers can approach, understand, and make use of foreign law. Its theme is pursued through a set of detailed essays which look at the courts as well as business practice and, with the help of statistics, demonstrate what type of academic work has any impact on the 'real' world. Engaging with Foreign Law thus aims to carve out a new niche for comparative law in this era of globalisation, and may also be the only book which deals in some depth with both private and public law in countries such as England, Germany, France, South Africa, and the United States.

Review Quotes

"Voici donc un livre passionnant, tant par son contenu que par sa forme. D'une écriture élégante mais claire et ferme, d'une liberté de ton réjouissante, il offre au lecteur une méthode fondée sur l'expérience et un trésor d'informations qui le met au fait des derniers développements dans le domaine du droit comparé." --P. Marchal, Revue de droit international et de droit comparé, 2009 No. 4

"Markesinis' and Fedtke's excellence of scholarship and breadth of erudition is beyond doubt, and so is the richness of the topics dealt with in Engaging with Foreign Law." --Carsten Gerner-Beuerle, King's Law Journal, Vol. 20, Issue 3, 2009

About the Author

Sir Basil Markesinis KC is a Fellow of the British Academy, a Foreign Fellow of the Accademia dei Lincei of Rome, the Royal Belgian Academy of Arts and Sciences in Brussels, the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in Amsterdam, and a Correspondng Fellow of the Academy of Athens and the Academie des Sciences Morales et Politques in France. He is a Bencher of Gray's Inn.

Professor Jörg Fedtke studied law and political science at the University of Hamburg in Germany. He held the Chair for Comparative Law at University College London, where he was also Director of the Institute of Global Law. He is now AN Yiannopoulos Professor in Comparative Law at Tulane University Law School in the United States.