METHODOLOGICAL WEEK: Legal Cultures: A Comparative Perspective

EHU Module "Socio-legal Research and Thesis Seminar"

The purpose of this course is to introduce basic notions about law, legal thinking, the legal order and its sources, the legal professions and legal cultures.

Some of the major debates in Comparative law will be dealt with - comparability, adaptation, transplants, influences, convergence, transitions.

At the end of the intensive course each student should be able to make a presentation about their own legal culture.

Plan for the Course:

1) Introduction to Law, to Comparison and to LC

2) Legal Pluralism and Multiculturalism in Law

3) Diffusion, reception, Transplants

4) Transnational Law, interlegalities and Europe as a legal laboratory

5) Rounding up - conclusion - presentations