New Directions in Comparative Law

Edited by Antonina Bakardjieva Engelbrekt, Professor of European Law and Torsten and Ragnar Söderberg Professor of Legal Science (2015–2018), Stockholm University and Joakim Nergelius, Professor of Law, Örebro University, Sweden

• Contents: PrefaceJoakim Nergelius IntroductionAntonina Bakardjieva Engelbrekt and Joakim Nergelius PART I: COMPARATIVE LAW, LEGAL AID AND DEVELOPMENT1. Legal Change and Economic Performance: An AssessmentGianmaria Ajani 2. Legal Cartography and Comparative LawPer Bergling3. Development Assistance in the Legal Field: Promotion of Market Economy v Human RightsMichael Bogdan 4. Can Human Rights be Exported? On the Very Idea of Human Rights TransplantabilityClaudio Corradetti 5. ‘Cut-and-Paste’? Rule of Law Promotion and Legal Transplants in War to Peace TransitionsRichard Zajac Sannerholm PART II: COMPARATIVE CONSTITUTIONAL LAW6. Ontological and Epistemological Complexity in Comparative Constitutional LawOtto Pfersmann7. European Constitutional Law: Its Notion, Scope and FinalitiesRainer Arnold 8. Governmental Accountability in Autonomies: Åland Islands in Comparison with Select Autonomies in Europe and ElsewhereMarkku Suksi9. The Viability of Constitutional/Non-Constitutional ComparisonJohan Lindholm 10. Comparative Aspects of Fundamental Rights in Germany and Central and Eastern Europe: The Example of UkraineKateryna Karpova PART III: COMPARATIVE PRIVATE AND ECONOMIC LAW11. Making the Principles of European Contract Law: Theoretical and Methodological AspectsOle Lando 12. The Questionable Questionnaire: Reflections on Comparative Law Method in Light of Principles of European Tort Law Mårten Schultz13. Legal Services in Conveyancing: A European ComparisonChristoph U. Schmid 14. Constitutionalisation of Private LawAnna Lytvynyuk 15. Toward an Institutional Approach to Comparative Economic Law?Antonina Bakardjieva Engelbrekt CONCLUSION16. Modern Comparative Law: The Forces Behind and the Challenges Ahead in the Age of Transnational HarmonisationPeter-Christian Müller-GraffIndex