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I. Introduction and Overview
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Volume II: The Legal Systems of the World/Their Comparison and Unification | Chapter 4 (2020): Comparative Law, An Overview of the Discipline

1. Purpose and scope of this introduction. - Understanding comparative law first requires coming to grips with the term itself to survey the activities it comprises and to grasp some fundamental issues characterizing the discipline as a whole. This i…

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Mathias Reimann, “I. Introduction and Overview”, in: International Encyclopedia of Comparative Law Online, Edited by: U. Drobnig, R. David, H. H. Egawa, R. Graveson, V. Knapp, A. T. Von Mehren, Y. Noda, S. Rozmaryn, V. M. Tschchikvadze, H. Valladão, H. Yntema, K. Zweigert. Consulted online on 19 March 2024 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/2589-4021_IECO_COM_020401>
First published online: 2020



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