Book Title: Comparative Law and Multicultural Legal Classes: Challenge or Opportunity?

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

Abstract: This chapter is based on experience of teaching comparative law in the multicultural environment of classrooms in Singapore. Reflecting on this experience, the chapter explores the mission(s) of comparative law drawing on jurisprudential perspectives. From this, the chapter develops and argument about what comparative law should and should not be called upon to do in the classroom, and what a teacher of comparative law in multicultural legal classes should aim to deliver. In sum, the argument is that a jurisprudentially informed comparative legal studies approach should be pursued. If such an approach is adopted, then the teaching of comparative law in multicultural legal classes, while challenging, presents a significant opportunity for enhanced understanding.