Pier Giuseppe Monateri, Professor of Comparative Law and Mauro Balestrieri, Professor of Comparative Law, Department of Law, University of Turin, Italy

‘Comparative law, as both an academic discipline and practice, has been blossoming for several years. [...] To produce original, insightful and impactful comparative law scholarship in such a crowded market is no easy task. A new work on the methodology of legal comparison by Pier Giuseppe Monateri and Mauro Balestrieri, Quantitative Methods in Comparative Law, manages to achieve just that by blending accurate empirical research, perceptive interdisciplinary analysis and innovative arguments.’

• Contents: Preface PART I GENEALOGIES AND HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES 1 Quantitative genealogy: the rise of numeric comparative law: Mauro Balestrieri 2 The metric legality: jurimetrics, legal cybernetics, and governance by indicators: Mauro Balestrieri PART II THINKING WITH MODELS 3 Thinking law with numbers: models of legal quantification: Pier Giuseppe Monateri 4 Quantitative frictional analysis of political order: Pier Giuseppe Monateri Conclusion: friction and the law: Pier Giuseppe Monateri and Mauro Balestrieri References Index

Pier Giuseppe Monateri, Professor of Comparative Law and Mauro Balestrieri, Professor of Comparative Law, Department of Law, University of Turin, Italy

‘Comparative law, as both an academic discipline and practice, has been blossoming for several years. [...] To produce original, insightful and impactful comparative law scholarship in such a crowded market is no easy task. A new work on the methodology of legal comparison by Pier Giuseppe Monateri and Mauro Balestrieri, Quantitative Methods in Comparative Law, manages to achieve just that by blending accurate empirical research, perceptive interdisciplinary analysis and innovative arguments.’

• Contents: Preface PART I GENEALOGIES AND HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES 1 Quantitative genealogy: the rise of numeric comparative law: Mauro Balestrieri 2 The metric legality: jurimetrics, legal cybernetics, and governance by indicators: Mauro Balestrieri PART II THINKING WITH MODELS 3 Thinking law with numbers: models of legal quantification: Pier Giuseppe Monateri 4 Quantitative frictional analysis of political order: Pier Giuseppe Monateri Conclusion: friction and the law: Pier Giuseppe Monateri and Mauro Balestrieri References Index

Pier Giuseppe Monateri, Professor of Comparative Law and Mauro Balestrieri, Professor of Comparative Law, Department of Law, University of Turin, Italy

‘Comparative law, as both an academic discipline and practice, has been blossoming for several years. [...] To produce original, insightful and impactful comparative law scholarship in such a crowded market is no easy task. A new work on the methodology of legal comparison by Pier Giuseppe Monateri and Mauro Balestrieri, Quantitative Methods in Comparative Law, manages to achieve just that by blending accurate empirical research, perceptive interdisciplinary analysis and innovative arguments.’

• Contents: Preface PART I GENEALOGIES AND HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES 1 Quantitative genealogy: the rise of numeric comparative law: Mauro Balestrieri 2 The metric legality: jurimetrics, legal cybernetics, and governance by indicators: Mauro Balestrieri PART II THINKING WITH MODELS 3 Thinking law with numbers: models of legal quantification: Pier Giuseppe Monateri 4 Quantitative frictional analysis of political order: Pier Giuseppe Monateri Conclusion: friction and the law: Pier Giuseppe Monateri and Mauro Balestrieri References Index