Research methods and perspectives Scientia Iuris: On a Law-World Revolving Solely Around Knowledge, by Luca Siliquini-Cinelli 6 Dec 20244 Dec 2024 ‘Intellego quid loquar’ Cicero, Pro Ligario, 15 Introduction My new monograph, Scientia Iuris: Knowledge and Experience in Legal Education and Practice from the Late Roman Republic to Artificial Intelligence (Springer,…
Common law world… Clameur de haro: What an Ancient Norman Self-help Remedy Shows Us about the Common Law Today, by Katy Barnett 22 Nov 202422 Nov 2024 Introduction The common law allows ‘self-help’ remedies to a limited degree, provided that the exercise of self-help is reasonable. This allows the plaintiff to take the law into his or…
Judicial Creativity and the Law of Obligations Nothing New under the Sun? New Codifications and Old Questions, by Marcus Galdia 8 Nov 2024 Creativeness in Law and Judicial Creativeness Creativeness in law as a topic of academic inquiry is challenging in many respects. Law, unlike some other forms of communication, avoids subjectiveness, which…
Research methods and perspectives… A Research Agenda for Comparative Law?, by Jaakko Husa 1 Nov 202431 Oct 2024 Introduction Anyone who tries to get a hold of comparative law of today notices quickly that the field has diversified and expanded remarkably. Contemporary textbooks on comparative law’s theory and…
Judicial Creativity and the Law of Obligations South African Statutory Consumer Law and the Courts: The Curious Case of the Dog That Did Not Bark, by Jacques du Plessis 25 Oct 2024 1 Statutory Reform: the Consumer Protection Act 68 of 2008 The South African law of obligations is ‘mixed’, albeit in rather unequal parts. Most of its general principles derive from…
Comparison in Europe… Low-income energy consumers in France, Germany and the UK – Protection of vulnerable customers versus self-responsibility,By Prof. Dr. Peter Rott 25 Oct 202414 Nov 2024 Vulnerability of consumers can have many causes. One is poverty, or low income. One of the most tangible problems of low-income consumers is energy poverty, which the EU Commission has…
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