Review of Comparative Law

Review of Legal History

“…It is the second meaning, the history of law, or law and history, or law in history that we mean when we talk about legal history. As Leckey pointed out in his review of comparative law, there are many comparative laws (Leckey, 2017: 4–6), so too are there many types of legal history but not all are what we mean when we say ‘legal history’.…”

“…It seems almost customary for state of the fields to reference, if not start with, a claimed sense of malaise in the field (Leckey, 2017: 6; Valverde, 2017: 325). For legal history, however, the neuroses are different.…”

Comparación jurídica desde el sur global genealogía de un proyecto crítico

“…Aunque existen diversas aproximaciones dentro del campo del Derecho Comparado (Leckey, 2017), el estructuralismo y el funcionalismo son los enfoques o metodologías dominantes (di Robiland, 2016). En particular, en las últimas décadas el funcionalismo ha sido la base teórica de los operadores jurídicos -conscientes o inconscientes -para los procesos de reforma legal en la mayoría de países del Sur Global, a través de la incorporación de mejores prácticas o normas más eficientes.…”

Introduction

“…Thus, we anticipate that reviews will ask new research questions, identify gaps in the scholarship, and explore connections and discontinuities between diverse bodies of knowledge. (Stychin, 2016) The first article in this series, dealing with comparative law (Leckey, 2017a), was itself accompanied by a blog (Leckey, 2017b), confirming a further new endeavour that responded to a world where communication is increasingly digitized. The journal had already taken to Twitter in 2015 (you can follow us on @SLS Journal).…”