PART I THE DEVELOPMENT OF COMPARATIVE LAW IN THE WORLD; 1 Charles Donahue: Comparative Law before the Code Napoleon; 2 Benedicte Fauvarque-Cosson: Development of Comparative Law in France; 3 Ingeborg Schwenzer: Development of Comparative Law in Germany, Switzerland, and Austria; 4 Elisabetta Grande: Development of Comparative Law in Italy; 5 John W. Cairns: Development of Comparative Law in Great Britain; 6 David S. Clark: Development of Comparative Law in the United States; 7 Zdenek Kuhn: Development of Comparative Law in Central and Eastern Europe; 8 Luke Nottage: Development of Comparative Law in Japan; 9 Taisu Zhang: Development of Comparative Law in China; 10 Jan Kleinheisterkamp: Development of Comparative Law in Latin America; PART II APPROACHES TO COMPARATIVE LAW; 11 Nils Jansen: Comparative Law and Comparative Knowledge; 12 Nora Demleitner: Comparative Law and Legal Education; 13 Ralf Michaels: The Functional Method of Comparative Law; 14 Gerhard Dannemann: Comparative Law: Study of Similarities or Differences?; 15 H. Patrick Glenn: Comparative Legal Families and Comparative Legal Traditions; 16 Michele Graziadei: Comparative Law, Legal Transplants, and Receptions; 17 Jacques du Plessis: Comparative Law and the Study of Mixed Legal Systems; 18 Jan M. Smit: Comparative Law and its Influence on National Legal Systems; 19 Francis Jacobs: Comparative Law and European Union Law; 20 Reinhard Zimmerman: Comparative Law and the Europeanization of Private Law; 21 Horatia Muir Watt: Globalization and Comparative Law; 22 Chibli Mallat: Comparative Law and the Islamic (Middle Eastern) Legal Culture; 23 T. W. Bennett: Comparative Law and African Customary Law; 24 Vivian Grosswald Curran: Comparative Law and Language; 25 Roger Cotterrell: Comparative Law and Legal Culture; 26 James Whitman: Comparative Law and Religion; 27 James Gordley: Comparative Law and Legal History; 28 Annelise Riles: Comparative Law and Socio-legal Studies; 29 Ugo Mattei: Comparative Law and Critical Legal Studies; 30 Florian Faust: Comparative Law and Economic Analysis of Law; 31 Mathias Siems: New Directions in Comparative Law; PART III SUBJECT AREAS; 32 Stefan Vogenauer: Sources of Law and Legal Method in Comparative Law; 33 Hein Koetz: Comparative Contract Law; 34 Peter Huber: Comparative Sales Law; 35 Daniel Visser: Unjustified Enrichment in Comparative Perspective; 36 Gerhard Wagner: Comparative Tort Law; 37 Sjef van Erp: Comparative Property Law; 38 Marius J. de Waal: Comparative Succession Law; 39 Jens M. Scherpe: Comparative Family Law; 40 Matthew W. Finkin: Comparative Labour Law; 41 Klaus J. Hopt: Comparative Company Law; 42 David J. Gerber: Comparative Competition Law; 43 Mark Tushnet: Comparative Constitutional Law; 44 Samantha Besson: Comparative Human Rights Law; 45 John S. Bell: Comparative Administrative Law; 46 Markus D. Dubber: Comparative Criminal Law; 47 Joachim Zekoll: Comparative Civil Procedure; 48 Mathias Reimann: Comparative Law and Private International Law

Mathias Reimann is Hessel E. Yntema Professor of Law at The University of Michigan.
Reinhard Zimmermann is Director of the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, Hamburg, and an Affiliate Professor at Bucerius Law School.

This fully revised and updated second edition of The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Law provides a wide-ranging and diverse critical survey of comparative law at the beginning of the twenty-first century. It summarizes and evaluates a discipline that is time-honoured but not easily understood in all its dimensions. In the current era of globalization, this discipline is more relevant than ever, both on the academic and on the practical level.
The Handbook is divided into three main sections. Section I surveys how comparative law has developed and where it stands today in various parts of the world. This includes not only traditional model jurisdictions, such as France, Germany, and the United States, but also other regions like Eastern Europe, East Asia, and Latin America. Section II then discusses the major approaches to comparative law - its methods, goals, and its relationship with other fields, such as legal history, economics, and linguistics. Finally, section III deals with the status of comparative studies in over a dozen subject matter areas, including the major categories of private, economic, public, and criminal law.
The Handbook contains forty-eight chapters written by experts from around the world. The aim of each chapter is to provide an accessible, original, and critical account of the current state of comparative law in its respective area which will help to shape the agenda in the years to come. Each chapter also includes a short bibliography referencing the definitive works in the field.