Schlesinger's Comparative Law: Cases, Text, Materials, 7th Edition (University Casebooks)

Excellent book that will provide you a foundational understanding of the various legal systems in the world. I highly recommend that you read this book after having taken your first year courses (Torts, Property, Contracts, Criminal Law, etc.) because this book will show other legal systems apply the same topics and the rationale behind them. Remember, this is NOT an international law textbook where you merely distinguish the law and apply it. This book opens your eyes to the cultures themselves and the how and why their legal systems operate the way they do as compared to other cultures. Think of this book a mixture of anthropology and law. This is a BIG subject to tackle and the reading will make you feel as though you've been sent back to 1L year. In a way you have. You'll be expected to have a working knowledge of the various legal practices and systems in the world and compare them given that region's needs and values.If you take this book seriously and read it, you should leave a much more intellectually rounded individual than when you started. In my class, which was taught in a seminar format, we had really good debates and we challenged our own understandings of the law. Again, this subject matter is a big undertaking and you'll feel tired after every reading assignment, but in the end it will be worth it!

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This is an interesting book so far, I am taking class with an author of this book. Happy with this purchase

Interesting material and concise

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Professor Schlesinger was my teacher of civil procedure in law school. I loved, in particular, his fictional dialogue starring Professor Comparavich in this, his classic book on comparative law. It brought foreign litigation systems alive in a way no other work does. I am thankful that masterfully Professor Gidi has updated this and the other civil procedures sections and Professors Mattei and Ruskola the rest of the book. It would have made Professor Schlesinger happy to know that his book is now guiding American students in a day when justices of the U.S. Supreme Court recognize that foreign law is an essential part of every good lawyer's legal education.