Global Legal Indicators and Comparative Law

In recent times, comparative law has moved towards a new type of visualisation of the law, which is mainly based on indexes and indicators. This book critically analyses this 'quantitative turn' in comparative law.

Autorentext

Daniele D'Alvia is Lecturer in Banking and Finance Law at CCLS, Queen Mary University of London, UK, and Associate Researcher at the European Banking Institute in Frankfurt, Germany.

Matteo Nicolini is Associate Professor of Comparative Public Law in the Department of Law at the University of Verona, Italy; Visiting Lecturer at the Newcastle University Law School, UK; and External Partner of the Centre for the Study of Law in Theory and Practice (LTAP) at Liverpool John Moores University, UK.

Inhalt

Introduction: Framing and Ranking the Law from "the Outside" 1. Legal Indicators: The Law as an 'Output' 2. A Scientific State of Mind: The Onset of Legal Indicators 3. Legal Indicators and Constitutional Governance 4. The International Financial Architecture: Financial History and Evolution 5. The Benchmarks of International Insolvency Law 6. Conclusions