The Interaction of Legal Systems: Post-Soviet Approaches: 13 (JCL Studies in Comparative Law) - Tapa dura

Thirty-four comparatists from Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, Russia, and the United States address the philosophy and methodology of analyzing the interaction of national legal systems, the theory of such interaction, the interaction of national legal systems in practice, the interaction of international law, integration law, and national law, and the interaction of secular and religious law. Particular attention is given to social law doctrine, procedural comparative jurisprudence, comparative international law, the theory of open law, legal transplants, legal acculturation, traditional, continental, Latin American, Islamic, Hindu, Confucian, and mixed legal systems.

William E. Butler is the John Edward Fowler Distinguished Professor of Law and International Affairs at the Pennsylvania State University; Emeritus Professor of Comparative Law, University of London; Foreign Member, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and the National Academy of Legal Sciences of Ukraine; Associate, International Academy of Comparative Law. Oleksiy V. Kresin is Docent at the V. M. Koretskyi Institute of State and Law. National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine; Associate, International Academy of Comparative Law; Secretary-General, Ukrainian Association of Comparative Jurisprudence; President, Ukrainian National Committees of the International Academy of Comparative Law and International Association of Legal Science; and Editor-in-Chief, Comparative Jurisprudence (Kyiv) and Comparative Legal Studies (Kyiv).