Comparative Law and Multicultural Legal Classes: Challenge or Opportunity?

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.

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.