📚 Comparative Law

Books with comparative law on their catalogue record, first published between 1861 and 2020, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject comparative law in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 3,253 works the catalogue holds under that subject. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Ancient law, its connection with the early history of society and its relaton to modern ideas	Henry James Sumner Maine	1861	166
	Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft	Max Weber	1922	38
	Código de comercio (1885)	Spain.	1886	30
	Lectures on the early history of institutions	Henry James Sumner Maine	1875	26
	Le droit civil canadien basé sur les "Répétitions écrites sur le code civil" de Frédéric Mourlon, avec revue de la jurisprudence de nos tribunaux	P. B. Mignault	1895	16
	Comparative Law	Mathias Siems	2014	12
	Zeitschrift für vergleichende Rechtswissenschaft, einschliesslich der ethnologischen Rechtsforschung	Akademie für Deutsches Recht (Germany )	1878	11
	Einführung in die Rechtsvergleichung auf dem Gebiete des Privatrechts	Konrad Zweigert	1969	8
	Religion, Law and Tradition	Andrew Huxley	2002	8
	Guide to International Legal Research	George Washington Journal of International Law & Economics	1993	7
	Elgar Encyclopedia of Comparative Law	Jan M. Smits	2008	6
	Practice and Theory in Comparative Law	Maurice Adams	2012	6
	Routledge Handbook of Religious Laws	Silvio Ferrari	2019	6
	Corruption, Integrity and the Law	Nicholas Ryder	2020	6
	Le droit civil canadien avec revue de la jurisprudence de nos tribunaux	P. B. Mignault	1909	5
	A panorama of the world's legal systems	John Henry Wigmore	1928	5
	Grands systèmes de droit contemporains	David, René	1968	5
	United Kingdom law in the mid-1990s	International Congress of Comparative Law (14th 1994 Athens, Greece)	1994	5
	Comparative law in a changing world	Peter De Cruz	1995	5
	Judicial Recourse to Foreign Law	Basil Markesinis	2012	5
	Transnational Legal Ordering and State Change	Gregory C. Shaffer	2012	5
	Rechtstransfer	Jutta Mues	2015	5
	Negative Comparative Law	Pierre Legrand	2019	5
	Comparative law	H. C. Gutteridge	1946	4
	Introduction à l'étude du droit	Mohamed Charfi	1983	4
	As it was	Sybille Bedford	1990	4
	Komparatystyka prawnicza	Roman Tokarczyk	1999	4
	Comparative law in a global context	Werner Menski	2000	4
	Comparative Legal Studies	Pierre Legrand	2003	4
	Comparative Company Law	Mathias Siems	2013	4

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 24 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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