Nordic and Germanic Legal Methods

Contributions to a Dialogue between Different Legal Cultures, with a Main Focus on Norway and Germany

edited by Ingvill Helland and Soren Koch

Book cover: Nordic and Germanic Legal Methods

Extent: 461 pages

Publisher: Mohr Siebeck

Subjects: Law

Language: English

Paperback (Published)

(February 2015)

ISBN: 9783161530623

6.06 x 9.09 inches

Price: $130.00

In stock

To gain a proper understanding of a foreign legal system, a legal scholar cannot rely on written sources alone. He must also familiarise himself with how these are interpreted and applied to hard cases. However, materials explaining legal methods are often difficult to access for foreign lawyers, as they tend to be written in the national language and build on a series of preconceptions inherent to the specific legal order. It is therefore the purpose of this book to provide the comparative legal scholar with the tools to overcome some of these initial obstacles and gain a better understanding of how colleagues from different legal systems think about law. The book gives an introduction to the legal methods of the countries in the Nordic and Germanistic legal families, primarily addressed to foreign readers, thus explaining also those unspoken preconceptions. It further seeks historical and cultural explanations for present-day legal methods, and explores the impact of internationalisation as well as the possibility of a common European legal method.

  • Edited by Ingvill Helland
  • Edited by Soren Koch