Book Review… Review of Roberto Scarciglia, Methods and Legal Comparison: Challenges for Methodological Pluralism, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2023, by Luca Siliquini-Cinelli 4 Oct 20248 Oct 2024 The thing about comparative law is that it is not law. Comparative law is not like, say, contract or tort law—i.e. a specific field of law with its own principles,…
Book Review… “Research Handbook on Shareholders’ Inspection Rights”, reviewed by Marios Koutsias 16 Feb 202415 Feb 2024 The Research Handbook on Shareholders’ Inspection Rights is an edited collection which aims at providing the reader with an analysis of shareholders’ inspection rights across multiple jurisdictions and legal orders.…
Book Review Kriszta Kovács (ed), The Jurisprudence of Particularism: National Identity Claims in Central Europe (Bloomsbury Publishing 2023), ISBN: 9781509960125, reviewed by Radosveta Vassileva 15 Dec 202321 Nov 2023 This much timely and thought-provoking edited collection by Kriszta Kovács, Senior Fellow at the WZB Center for Global Constitutionalism, shines a light on a striking paradox – namely, how V4…
Book Review… Thomas Kadner Graziano, Comparative Contract Law: Exercises in Comparative Methodology (3rd edn, Edward Elgar Publishing 2023), reviewed by Sirko Harder 8 Dec 202314 Jan 2024 2023 saw the publication of the third edition of the highly acclaimed book Comparative Contract Law by Thomas Kadner Graziano, published by Edward Elgar. The subtitle of the book has…
Book Review… Rosalind Dixon, Tom Ginsburg & Adem Kassie Abebe (eds) Comparative Constitutional Law in Africa (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2022), reviewed by Francois Venter 13 Oct 202314 Jan 2024 The title of this otherwise commendable book is slightly misleading. The title suggests that it deals with the field of “comparative constitutional law” in Africa, but in fact it is…
Book Review… Towards future-proof comparative administrative law?, by Pieter Van Cleynenbreugel 18 Mar 202224 Feb 2022 A review of Susan Rose-Ackerman’s Democracy and executive power : Policymaking accountability in the US, the UK, Germany and France (Yale University Press, 2021) It cannot be denied that executive power…
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)…
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