Comparative family law The legal recognition of non-conjugal families in the US, Canada and Europe, by Nausica Palazzo 29 Oct 202127 Aug 2021 Families eschewing the paradigm of the traditional marital family are on the rise. These include families which lack a sexual component (so-called non-conjugal couples) or who comprise more than two…
Comparative criminal law What makes criminal justice systems effective? A comparative perspective, by Robin Hofmann 26 Oct 20213 Oct 2021 In 2006, the US American scholar Robert Bohm coined the term of the McDonaldization of the criminal justice system. Bohm criticized the increased influence of managerialism and efficiency on criminal…
Comparative administrative law… The Recognition of a Substantive English Public Law through the Privileged Legal Treatment of Public Assets, by Deborah Thebault 22 Oct 202127 Aug 2021 Against the backdrop of French public law with its separate administrative and ordinary courts, French lawyers often assume that English law does not have a system of public law, nor a system of public…
Comparative corporate law… Comparative Corporate Governance (Edward Elgar 2021), by Afra Afsharipour and Martin Gelter 15 Oct 202127 Aug 2021 Comparative corporate governance has become a broad research field during the past decades. With the increasing internationalization of law and legal scholarship, the subject has seen a burgeoning volume of…
Book Review… Mergers, Acquisitions and International Financial Regulation: Analysing Special Purpose Acquisition Companies (Daniele D’Alvia, Routledge 2021), reviewed by Milos Vulanovic 12 Oct 202114 Jan 2024 In the hearings related to the Securities Enforcement Remedies and Penny Stock Reform Act of 1990, the US Attorney for the District of Utah stated regarding blank check companies (BBCs)…
Comparative constitutional law… Constitutional change in the contemporary socialist world, by Bui Ngoc Son 8 Oct 202127 Aug 2021 The Socialist World in Comparative Constitutional Law The collapse of the Soviet bloc in the late twentieth century, which precipitated a massive transition from communism into constitutional democracy in Europe,…
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