pt. I. Why 'methods'? : an intellectual project on the multilayer structure of legal comparativism -- Methods in comparative law : an intellectual overview / Pier Giuseppe Monateri -- Intent on making mischief : seven ways of using comparative law / Mads Andenas and Duncan Fairgrieve -- Method? / Simone Glanert -- Comparison as deep appreciation / Gary Watt -- pt. II. Revisiting classical theories and perspectives on comparative legal methodologies : a critical glance -- The functional method / James Gordley -- How to do projects with comparative law : notes of an expedition to the common core / Günter Frankenberg -- Descriptive and purposive categories of comparative law / Sebastian McEvoy -- pt. III. Legal transplants and transnational codes : questioning on cultural biases and scientific statements -- All that heaven allows : are transnational codes a 'scientific truth' or are they just a form of elegant 'pastiche'? / Geoffrey Samuel -- Contextualizing legal transplant : China and Hong Kong / Chen Lei -- pt. IV. Space, boundaries and jurisdictions : the choreographic spectrality of law -- Interstitium and non-law / Peter Goodrich -- The iconicity of space : comparative law and the geopolitics of jurisdictions / Cristina Costantini -- pt. V. Legal narratives, judicial interpretations and subversive paradigms -- The resilience of history : comparative legal theory and the end of the American century / Anthony Louis Marasco -- Iudex translator : the reign of finitude / Jeanne Gaakeer -- Further terrains for subversive comparison : the field of global governance and the public/private divide / Horatia Muir Watt -- pt. VI. Political economies and the inner policies of law : towards a 'comparative law and economics' assessment -- Towards the economics of comparative law : the 'Doing Business' debate / Antonio Nicita and Simona Benedettini -- Quantitative methods in comparative law / Francesco Parisi and Barbara Luppi