Comparative Law and Multicultural Legal Classes: Challenge or Opportunity?

1. Front Matter

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2. The General Report

   1. Front Matter

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   2. Comparative Law and Multicultural Legal Classes: Challenge or Opportunity?

      • Csaba Varga

      Pages 3-42

3. National Reports

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 43-43

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   2. Comparative Law and Multicultural Classes: A Japanese Example

      • Hitoshi Aoki

      Pages 45-57

   3. Brazilian Experience on Comparative Law: Much to Do, and Multicultural Legal Classes as an Opportunity

      • Melina Girardi-Fachin

      Pages 59-78

   4. Comparative Law and Multicultural Legal Classes in Italy: Challenge or Opportunity?

      • Silvia Ferreri

      Pages 79-100

   5. The Multicultural Classroom As a Comparative Law Site: A United Kingdom Perspective

      • Myriam Hunter-Henin

      Pages 101-117

   6. Comparative Law and Multicultural Legal Classes in Singapore: An Opportunity for Enhanced Understanding

      • Arif A. Jamal

      Pages 119-131

   7. Redressing Romanian Legal Education (in Comparative Garments)

      • Alexandra Mercescu

      Pages 133-156

   8. Diverse Legal Classes and Cultures: Challenges and Opportunities—Danish Report

      • Hanne Petersen

      Pages 157-178

   9. Multicultural Law and Multicultural Legal Classes: A Legal-Historical Account from Germany

      • Jan Thiessen

      Pages 179-196

   10. Turning Challenges into Opportunities: Reflections on Teaching Comparative Law in Multicultural Classes in Estonia

       • Age Värv

       Pages 197-212

This book discusses legal education in multicultural classes. Comparative law education is now widespread throughout the world, and there is a growing trend in developed countries toward teaching global law. Providing theoretical answers on how to describe each legal culture and tradition side-by-side, it also explores educational methodological options to address these aspects without causing offence or provoking tension within a multicultural student community. The book examines nine countries on three continents, bringing together academic views and educational insights from ten scholars in the field of comparative law.

• Taxonomy of legal orders
• Families of law
• Legal cultures
• Legal education
• Students’ migration
• Intercultural dialogue
• Biases and resentments
• Legal translation
• Learning styles
• Cross-cultural awareness

• Philosophy of Law Department, Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Budapest, Hungary

  Csaba Varga

Csaba Varga is a legal philosopher, researcher at the Institute for Legal Studies of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (1965–), presently its Research Professor Emeritus. Having taught at the Eötvös Loránd University from 1982 on, he became a professor of legal theory (1992–2002) there. With the Pázmány Péter Catholic University refounded, he established and directed its Institute for Philosophy of Law (1995–2011), presently as Professor Emeritus. Visiting professorships at Lund, Berlin (FreeU), Canberra (ANU), Tokyo (Waseda), New Haven (Yale), Trento, Münster, Trier, Freiburg, Oñati (Int’lInst for SociolL), Stockholm, Krasnoyarsk (SFU). His professional interest spans from legal methodology via ontology and macrosociological theories of law to legal comparativism.

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