International law in comparative perspective

Exploration of the potential uses of the comparative method in understanding the international legal order and its relationship to other legal systems or families of legal systems, in enlarging the area of common principles and practices, and in devising bases for adjustment, harmonization, standardization, and cooperation continues to be an underdeveloped realm of comparative legal studies. A new generation of international and comparative lawyers has, however, been reconsidering the role of comparison in international law in all of its aspects with, as will be apparent from the essays in this volume, a new vitality, energy, and wide variety of perspectives.