Comparative family law Plurality and Diversity in Law: Family Forms and Family’s Functions (Intersentia 2019) edited by Jacqueline Heaton and Aida Kemelmajer 24 Mar 202323 Mar 2023 Legal rules play an important role in recognising, protecting, and supporting the family. As the notion of a ‘family’ is constantly changing, the law sometimes lags behind and fails to…
Human rights & comparisons Contesting (Supportive and Critical) Human Rights Orthodoxies – The Significance of Regional Human Rights Systems (CUP 2022), by Christopher Roberts 17 Mar 202315 Mar 2023 Alternative Approaches to Human Rights: The Disparate Historical Paths of the European, Inter-American and African Regional Human Rights Systems conducts a comparative historical investigation of the development of the…
Comparative corporate law Comparative Enterprise Foundation Law, edited by Anne Sanders & Steen Thomsen 10 Mar 20238 Mar 2023 With our book “Enterprise Foundation Law in Comparative Perspective”, published on March 7th 2023 by Intersentia, (also available open access) we wish to provide comparative insights into the economic importance…
Comparative contracts… Contract Law in Changing Times: Asian Perspectives on Pacta Sunt Servanda (Routledge, 2023), by Normann Witzleb 3 Mar 20232 Mar 2023 Pacta sunt servanda, the principle that contractual commitments need to be honoured, is an axiom of contract law recognised throughout the world. Yet, like other legal principles, it is not…
Events and News… Nordic Legal Culture: Myth or Reality? June 1 and 2, 2023, Faculty of Law, University of Bergen 28 Feb 20231 Mar 2023 Carta marina, a wallmap of Scandinavia. The caption reads:Marine map and Description of the Northern Lands and of their Marvels, most carefully drawn up at Venice in the year 1539 through…
Comparative criminal law Fault in Criminal Law: A Research Companion (Routledge 2022), edited by Alan Reed and Michael Bohlander with Bethany Simpson and Verity Adams 24 Feb 202323 Feb 2023 The published volumes in the Substantive Issues in Criminal Law series are on the following topics: Participation in Crime (Ashgate 2013); General Defences in Criminal Law (Ashgate 2014); Consent (Routledge…
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