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Graziadei, Michele; Smith, Lionel --- "Preface" [2017] ELECD 202; in Graziadei, Michele; Smith, Lionel (eds), "Comparative Property Law" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2017) x

Book Title: Comparative Property Law

Editor(s): Graziadei, Michele; Smith, Lionel

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781848447578

Section Title: Preface

Author(s): Graziadei, Michele; Smith, Lionel

Number of pages: 5

Extract:

Preface
Michele Graziadei and Lionel Smith



Our goal in producing this book, with the collaboration of many colleagues from many
jurisdictions, is to facilitate the research and the study of property law from a
comparative standpoint. More often than not, property law is presented as an eminently
local branch of the law, deeply embedded in a specific context. Although property
arrangements can be very different indeed, and surely reflect local dimensions of social
life, this assumption does not do justice to the topic as an academic subject. It is
possible to learn a lot from the comparative study of property law, and the tendency to
do so is growing, due to the expansion of cross-border transactions, and the global
dimensions that many social, economic and environmental problems have acquired.
Nonetheless, the comparative legal literature on property remains meagre in compari-
son to what comparative law has done in other respects. Other areas of the law, such as
constitutional law, contracts, torts, company and financial markets law, have benefitted
from a much more intense research effort by the comparative law community. A single
volume on comparative property law cannot by itself change this situation, since it
cannot be exhaustive. Readers may therefore wonder what considerations played a role
in determining the contents of this Handbook. The ambition of studying the institutions
of property in comparative perspective today poses new challenges, because the
national dimensions of the law, including property law, are receding in importance.
This is why the title of ...