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Montateri, Pier Giuseppe --- "Introduction" [2012] ELECD 576; in Monateri, Giuseppe Pier (ed), "Methods of Comparative Law" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2012)

Book Title: Methods of Comparative Law

Editor(s): Monateri, Giuseppe Pier

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781849802529

Section Title: Introduction

Author(s): Montateri, Pier Giuseppe

Number of pages: 4

Extract:

Introduction
Pier Giuseppe Monateri



Comparative Law is rising up over its old horizon: a new presence is dispelling the
shadows of the past to reveal a submerged bulk of buried cultural secrets.
This evocative gothic image is intended to celebrate the rebirth of Comparative Law as
an autonomous discipline.
From this perspective this volume aims to fill a gap in legal scholarship by structuring an
intellectual project of de-familiarization from unified and framed conventions. The main
purpose is to unfold the plot that has strategically arranged dissimilar thoughts and ideas
into a comforting and undisputed order: the renovation of Comparative Law feeds upon
the pliable, fluid and multidimensional nature of the voices that embody it. Therefore, the
use of the plural form of the noun `method' in the title is intentional: it synthesizes and
vividly recalls the research path followed through the pages of the book. In the same way
the structure of the work is conscious and studied: the pattern of organization, the
sequence of the chapters, the selection of the essays are designed to focus on the evolving
shape of legal comparativism. Taken as a whole, the volume offers, in a comprehensive
and pioneering format, an accessible manual from which scholars, students and practition-
ers can benefit.
Having clarified that our primary goal is to explore the new models which appear to
have moved to the centre of the scene in legal comparativism, in this Introduction I will
briefly outline the contents and arguments developed in the ...