Methods of Comparative Law brings to bear new thinking on topics including: the mutual relationship between space and law; the plot that structures legal narratives, identities and judicial interpretations; a strategic approach to legal decision making; and the inner potentialities of the ‘comparative law and economics’ approach to the eld.

Together, the contributors reassess the scientic understanding of comparative methodologies in the eld of law in order to provide both critical insights into the traditional literature and an original overview of the most recent and purposive trends.

‘Extensively footnoted throughout, the book takes its place as part of Elgar’s Research Handbooks in Comparative Law series – the rst of its kind, apparently, to cover such a broad range of comparative law issues. e orientation is global; the approach scholarly. is is a book which will no doubt interest the worldwide community of law academics and academic lawyers. Oering up some of the latest thinking on this subject, it contains much food for thought.’ – Phillip Taylor MBE and Elizabeth Taylor, e Barrister Magazine

Edited by Pier Giuseppe Monateri, Professor of Comparative Law, Department of Law, University of Turin, Italy