Quantitative Methods in Comparative Law

码头朱塞佩Monateri,教授essor of Comparative Law and Mauro Balestrieri, Professor of Comparative Law, Department of Law, University of Turin, Italy

This invaluable and timely book provides a comprehensive “Conflict Prevention and Friction Analysis (CPFA) Model” for researching comparative law in our increasingly technology-led legal and economic order. It provides an in-depth examination of practical case studies, showcasing the real-world application of quantitative methods and theoretical approaches for analysing legal issues.

‘Does law exist? If it does, one nevertheless cannot see it. But what one can see, say these two leading Italian academics, is a whole range of quantifiable effects that attach to law. It is these empirical effects that the authors employ as a comparative methodological approach which, they argue, avoids the impressionistic models founded on culture and on ‘ideological pipe dreams’. A controversial book? Undoubtedly so, but one that is so important and well argued that no serious comparative lawyer and (or) legal epistemologist will ever be able to ignore it.’
– Geoffrey Samuel, Kent Law School, UK

‘Was our critical horizon not that of incommensurability, as the world order was insidiously overtaken by neoliberal “metric legality”? Taking us by complete surprise, this brilliant political-legal model of “friction theory” uses quantitative methods to understand social approaches to law and their (often perverse...) effects in the empirical world.’
– Horatia Muir Watt, Sciences Po Paris, France