Horatia Muir Watt, Professor of Law, SciencesPo, Paris, France and Geoffrey Samuel, Professor Emeritus, Kent Law School, UK

• ContentsPreface1 Introduction: comparative legal methodology in context PART I OVERVIEWIntroduction to Part I: Overview2 Threshold epistemological conundra 3 Comparative law’s conceptual language 4 Models of legal knowledge (1): the canon 5 Models of legal knowledge (2): further variations PART II SCHEMES OF INTELLIGIBILITYIntroduction to Part II: schemes of intelligility6 Causal scheme: an uncommon notion 7 Functional scheme: theory, heuristic, or just part of theproblem? 8 Structuralist scheme: preparing for the era of the ‘post-structuralist’?9 Hermeneutical scheme: what (if anything) is beyond the ‘text’? 10 Dialectical scheme: comparison, opposition and critique 11 Actionalist (and interactionalist) scheme: individuals, society,actor-networks 12 Ontologies and open conclusions Bibliography

Horatia Muir Watt, Professor of Law, SciencesPo, Paris, France and Geoffrey Samuel, Professor Emeritus, Kent Law School, UK

• ContentsPreface1 Introduction: comparative legal methodology in context PART I OVERVIEWIntroduction to Part I: Overview2 Threshold epistemological conundra 3 Comparative law’s conceptual language 4 Models of legal knowledge (1): the canon 5 Models of legal knowledge (2): further variations PART II SCHEMES OF INTELLIGIBILITYIntroduction to Part II: schemes of intelligility6 Causal scheme: an uncommon notion 7 Functional scheme: theory, heuristic, or just part of theproblem? 8 Structuralist scheme: preparing for the era of the ‘post-structuralist’?9 Hermeneutical scheme: what (if anything) is beyond the ‘text’? 10 Dialectical scheme: comparison, opposition and critique 11 Actionalist (and interactionalist) scheme: individuals, society,actor-networks 12 Ontologies and open conclusions Bibliography

Horatia Muir Watt, Professor of Law, SciencesPo, Paris, France and Geoffrey Samuel, Professor Emeritus, Kent Law School, UK

• ContentsPreface1 Introduction: comparative legal methodology in context PART I OVERVIEWIntroduction to Part I: Overview2 Threshold epistemological conundra 3 Comparative law’s conceptual language 4 Models of legal knowledge (1): the canon 5 Models of legal knowledge (2): further variations PART II SCHEMES OF INTELLIGIBILITYIntroduction to Part II: schemes of intelligility6 Causal scheme: an uncommon notion 7 Functional scheme: theory, heuristic, or just part of theproblem? 8 Structuralist scheme: preparing for the era of the ‘post-structuralist’?9 Hermeneutical scheme: what (if anything) is beyond the ‘text’? 10 Dialectical scheme: comparison, opposition and critique 11 Actionalist (and interactionalist) scheme: individuals, society,actor-networks 12 Ontologies and open conclusions Bibliography