Бакалавриат
2025/2026
Научно-исследовательский семинар "Введение в сравнительное правоведение"
Статус:
Курс по выбору (Юриспруденция)
Где читается:
Факультет права
Когда читается:
2-й курс, 4 модуль
Охват аудитории:
для своего кампуса
Язык:
английский
Кредиты:
3
Контактные часы:
40
Course Syllabus
Abstract
This introductory course on comparative law is designed for students interested in studying foreign legal systems who possess a solid knowledge of English. The course discusses the nature of ‘traditional’ comparative law, its functions, aims, methods and history. It then surveys the main features of the world’s major legal families (civil law, common law, non-Western legal traditions in Asia and mixed jurisdictions) and maps the world’s legal systems. It introduces the basic research methods of traditional comparative law confronting them with the extended methods of “postmodern” comparative law. The course also provides a methodological approach to conducting a comparative analysis.
Learning Objectives
- The course introduces students to the main approaches of ‘traditional’ comparative law, including its functions, objectives, methods and history. It also intends to survey the main features of the world’s major legal systems (civil law, Anglo-American common law, non-Western legal traditions in Asia, Sharia and mixed jurisdictions), providing students with an overview of legal systems around the world. The course introduces the study of comparative law in today’s (de)globalised world, using the extended methods of “postmodern” comparative law and a contextualised approach to legal systems and institutions. The course introduces students to the steps involved in a comparative analysis, including identifying preliminary considerations, research questions, and the choice of legal systems.
Expected Learning Outcomes
- Students will learn to recognise the methodological approaches of traditional and postmodern comparative law. This will give them an overview of the issues and questions of comparative law, such as: — How a specific legal problem can be addressed in a specific country? — What is the difference between common law and civil law? — What are the global taxonomies of legal systems? — How can legal systems be influenced by personal and political biases?
- Students will learn to recognise the methodological approaches of traditional and postmodern comparative law. This will give them an overview of the issues and questions of comparative law, such as:— How can the socio-legal context explain why the law differs between countries? — Could legal transplants be successful? — How can comparative methods be applied to research convergence, regionalism, and internationalisation? — How can comparisons be used to evaluate transnational and global norms?
Course Contents
- 1. Traditional Comparative Law. The Comparative Legal Method.
- 2. Common Law and Cilil Law.
- 3. The world’s Legal Systems.
- 4. Postmodern Comparative Law.
- 5. Socio-Legal Comparative Law.
- 6. Legal Transplants.
- 7. Convergence, Regionalisation and Internationalisation.
- 8. Transnational and Global Comparative Law.
- 9. Group projects presentations.
- 10. Group project presentations.
Assessment Elements
- Attendance of seminars
- Active participation in seminar discussions
- Group project presentations
Interim Assessment
- 2025/2026 4th module0.2 * Attendance of seminars + 0.5 * Active participation in seminar discussions + 0.3 * Group project presentations
Bibliography
Recommended Core Bibliography
- 9780429751424 - Sean Patrick Donlan, Jane Mair - Comparative Law : Mixes, Movements, and Metaphors - 2019 - Routledge - http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=nlebk&AN=2278831 - nlebk - 2278831
- 9781509946945 - Balázs Fekete - Paradigms in Modern European Comparative Law : A History - 2021 - Hart Publishing - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=nlebk&AN=2938170 - nlebk - 2938170
- A new introduction to comparative law, Husa, J., 2015
- An introduction to comparative law theory and method, Samuel, G., 2014
- Bignami, F., & Zaring, D. (2016). Comparative Law and Regulation : Understanding the Global Regulatory Process. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=1359167
- Blanc-Jouvan Xavier. (2014). Jan M. Smits (ed.). -Elgar Encyclopedia of Comparative Law, 2nd ed., 2012. Revue Internationale de Droit Comparé, (1), 184. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsper&AN=edsper.ridc.0035.3337.2014.num.66.1.20363.t19.0184.0000.2
- Classics in comparative law. Vol.2: Institutions, , 2014
- Classics in comparative law. Vol.3: Private law, , 2014
- Classics in comparative law. Vol.4: Public law, , 2014
- Comparative law : an introduction to the comparative method of legal study and research, Gutteridge, H. C., 2015
- Comparative law : law and the process of law in Japan, Port, K. L., 2015
- Comparative law and economics. Vol.1: ., , 2004
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- Comparative law and society, , 2012
- Comparative law for legal translators, Soriano - Barabino, G., 2016
- Comparative Law in a Changing World, Cruz de, P., 1999
- Comparative law in a changing world, Cruz de, P., 2008
- Comparative law in a global context : the legal systems of Asia and Africa, Menski, W., 2006
- Comparative Law Methodology. (2017). Edward Elgar. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsnar&AN=edsnar.oai.dare.uva.nl.publications.97a3fe4e.4984.4ddd.9620.ccf2898196c1
- Comparative Law, Bogdan, M., 1994
- Comparative law, Siems, M., 2014
- Comparative law, Siems, M., 2019
- Current issues of International Law and Comparative Law : монография / ed. by H. D. Horn, V. Voynikov. — Калининград : БФУ им. И.Канта, 2022. — 243 с. — ISBN 978-5-9971-0670-6. — Текст : электронный // Лань : электронно-библиотечная система. — URL: https://e.lanbook.com/book/310034 (дата обращения: 00.00.0000). — Режим доступа: для авториз. пользователей.
- Murphy, C. (2014). Xiaodong Yang, STATE IMMUNITY IN INTERNATIONAL LAW Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (), Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law, 2012. clxxii + 761 pp. ISBN 9780521844017. £95. Edinburgh Law Review, 18(2), 306–308. https://doi.org/10.3366/elr.2014.0222
- Reitz, J. C. (2002). A Life in the Craft of Comparative Law. Michigan Law Review, 100(6), 1453. https://doi.org/10.2307/1290450
- Smits, J. M. (2012). Elgar Encyclopedia of Comparative Law (Vol. 2nd ed). Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=483155
- The role of comparative law in the development of modern private international law. (2019). Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004412088_010
- Отв. ред. Малиновский А.А., Трикоз Е.Н. - Актуальные проблемы сравнительного правоведения. Contemporary Issues of Comparative Law. Сборник статей. Выпуск 1 - 978-5-998-80943-9 - РГ-Пресс - 2020 - http://ebs.prospekt.org/book/43826 - 43826 - PROSPECT
Recommended Additional Bibliography
- An introduction to comparative law, Zweigert, K., 2011
- Classics in comparative law. Vol.1: Methodology, , 2014
- Kischel, U., & Hammel, A. (2019). Comparative Law (Vol. First edition). Oxford, United Kingdom: OUP Oxford. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=2032077