Comparative Legal Theory

Overview of the Course

Comparative legal theory is an academic discipline that involves the study of legal systems, including their constitutive elements and how they differ, and how their elements combine into a system. Comparative legal theory is also termed as comparative jurisprudence, comparative law etc. Comparative legal theory is the scholarly study of the resemblances and differences between the different legal systems. For example, study of similarities and differences between civil law and common law countries. In this course we will study different types of legal theories such as natural law theory, legal positivism, legal reasoning and liberalism; feminist jurisprudence, moral interpretivist theory of law etc. and compare them with the legal theories in other jurisdictions such as Islamic legal theories.