Table of Contents

1. Reflections on the State of Comparative Law I: The Twilight of the Heroes 2. Reflections on the State of Comparative Law II: The Era of Societal Needs 3. Spreading the Gospel (and the Name of the Evangelist) 4. South Africa 5. The Situation in Germany 6. The Reluctance to Borrow Ideas from Abroad: Two Strange Bedfellows— The United States and France 7. The Focused Approach in Public Law: A Look at English and French Law 8. Another Lesson on Packaging: The Grey Zone where Tort Law Overlaps with Administrative Law 9. Foreign Law Inspiring National Law: Lessons from Greatorex v Greatorex 10. Comparative Law in Commercial Practice 11. Reflecting on the Future: The Subject and its Teachers

About the Author

Sir Basil Markesinis KC is a Fellow of the British Academy, a Foreign Fellow of the Accademia dei Lincei of Rome, the Royal Belgian Academy of Arts and Sciences in Brussels, the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in Amsterdam, and a Correspondng Fellow of the Academy of Athens and the Academie des Sciences Morales et Politques in France. He is a Bencher of Gray’s Inn. Professor Jörg Fedtke studied law and political science at the University of Hamburg in Germany. He held the Chair for Comparative Law at University College London, where he was also Director of the Institute of Global Law. He is now AN Yiannopoulos Professor in Comparative Law at Tulane University Law School in the United States.

Reviews

Voici donc un livre passionnant, tant par son contenu que par sa forme. D'une écriture élégante mais claire et ferme, d'une liberté de ton réjouissante, il offre au lecteur une méthode fondée sur l'expérience et un trésor d'informations qui le met au fait des derniers développements dans le domaine du droit comparé.
*Revue de droit international et de droit comparé, 2009 No. 4*

Markesinis' and Fedtke's excellence of scholarship and breadth of erudition is beyond doubt, and so is the richness of the topics dealt with in Engaging with Foreign Law.
*King's Law Journal, Vol. 20, Issue 3, 2009*