Introduction&Annelise Riles

Part Ⅰ Founding Moments

1 Montesquieu: The specter of despotism and the origins of comparative law&Robert Launay

2 Max Weber and the uncertainties of categorical comparative law&Ahmed A. White

Part Ⅱ The Critique of Classicism

3 Rethinking Hermann Kantorowicz: Free law, American legal realism and the legacy of anti-formalism&Vivian Grosswald Curran

4 Encountering amateurism: John Henry Wigmore and the uses of American formalism&Annelise Riles

Part Ⅲ The Science of Modernization

5 Nobushige Hozumi: A skillful transplanter of Western legal thought into Japanese soil&Hitoshi Aoki

6 Sanhuri, and the historical origins of comparative law in the Arab World （or how sometimes losing your Asalah can be good for you）&Amr Shalakany

7 Sculpting the agenda of comparative law: Ernst Rabel and the facade of language&David J. Gerber

Part Ⅳ Mid-Century Pragmatism

8 Rene David: At the head of the legal family&Jorge L Esquirol

9 The Comparative jurisprudence of Schlesinger and Sacco: A Study in legal influence&Ugo Mattei

Index